Friendship Templates

C. S. Lewis - Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Mignon McLaughlin - It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Confucius - Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Thomas A. Edison - I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Herman Melville - Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

John D. Rockefeller - A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Chanakya - There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Charles Darwin - A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Elie Wiesel - Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Orson Welles - We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.