F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.”
Source: The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays
“Friendship is more important than truth.”
“Friendship is more intentional than automatic. If you don't intentionally decide to draw close to people, you can have them in your life for a long time but have no true closeness with them.”
Source: Choose Your Friends, Don't Let Your Friends Choose You
“Friendship is more than skin deep.”
Source: The Lions of Little Rock
“Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone”
Source: The Godfather
“Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.”
“Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.”
“Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures were built. It reaches beyond personal desires and self-regard in men's hearts, its grip is greater than that of sexual desire, and it is proof against disappointment because it asks for nothing.”
Source: Embers
“Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.”
Source: Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
“Friendship is not a system for taking advantage of people; but rather a relationship for empowering people to be better than they used to be.”
“Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.”
Source: Destroy Me
“Friendship is not about manipulating people; but rather inspiring them to reach their potentials.”
“Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.”
“Friendship is not automatic.”
“Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.”
Source: Winning Formulas
“Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.”
“Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.”
“Friendship is not inherited. It’s built, tested, and sometimes — discarded.”
Source: Global Don: The Gospel of the Street Prophet
“Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.”
“Friendship is not meant for dreamers. Instead, have positive people that inspire you every day. Successful people don't have friends, they only have success colleagues.”
“Friendship is not more of going out to look for friends; but rather being a true friend.”
“Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.”
“Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.”
“Friendship is not something that you seek but something that finds you.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything”
“Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”
“Friendship is not supposed to hurt.”
“Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.”
Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream
“Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.”
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.”
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
“Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; it is designed to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.”
“Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.”
“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”
“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”
“Friendship is one soul in two bodies.”
“Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.”
“Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram-- that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.”
“Friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
“Friendship is rooted in the protection of deep dark secrets.”
“Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.”
“Friendship is simply a relationship of self-exposure and self-manifestation.”
“Friendship is so important. The goal of a good friendship should be for life! To keep it for life! If you find a friendship, and it gives you a joy inside, a peace, and a freedom; keep that friendship for life. Through it all, you stay together. So many friendships are toxic, but the good ones are really good! I always tell my son this, I always say, a friend is for life!”
“Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.”
“Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.”
“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”
Source: The Heart of The Matter