FRIENDSHIP QUOTES (7)
Love between man
and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and
friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual
intercourse.
~James Joyce
Your experiences
will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever
disappoint you.
~Anne Lamott
When the world is
so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
~Maria Shriver
I understand by
this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed
by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks
her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
~Edward Gibbon
Friendship without
self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
~James F. Byrnes
Marriage is the
highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them,
at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
~Samuel Richardson
A lot of the
powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're
really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of
friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
~Jena Malone
As told in
Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're
all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything
we've done all our lives pointless.
~Neale Donald
Walsch
Love is like the wild
rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the
rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Bronte
The differences
between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
~Mao Zedong
Pity and
friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
~Oliver Goldsmith
If we would build
on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather
than for our own.
~Charlotte Bronte
I do have a lot of
time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me.
I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
~Salman Rushdie
Friendships are
the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom
friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
~Salman Rushdie
I think in
friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't
know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for
you to know what to do.
~Marion Cotillard
One measure of
friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the
number of things they need no longer mention.
~Clifton Paul Fadiman
I keep my friends
as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom,
none is greater or better than friendship.
~Pietro Aretino
Read as you taste
fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
~George Herbert
Friendship is the
golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~John Evelyn
If you're going
through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How
important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good
friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you
kind of have to move on sometimes.
~Victoria Justice
Love is flower
like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
~Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
We must reach out
our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and
those who would be our enemy.
~Arthur Ashe
The rules of
friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though,
you have to think rationally.
~Steven Pinker
Friendship is a
wildly underrated medication.
~Anna Deavere
Smith
Happiness is
understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious
than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true
principles are not at stake.
~J. Donald Walters
My inspiration are
the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
~Enrique Iglesias
I think friendship
is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the
very best of all.
~Jane Green
Accountability in
friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
~Anita Brookner
From an early age
I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I
thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what
was acceptable was much more interesting.
~Adam Clayton
A friendship like
love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
~Thomas More
Friendship's the
wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
~Edward Young
Why do we go
around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when
basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
~Anna Freud
Friendship is a
strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and
happiness of one another.
~Eustace Budgell
Time makes
friendship stronger, but love weaker.
~Jean de la
Bruyere
Suspicion is the
cancer of friendship.
~Petrarch
When friendship
disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the
outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in
which men perish utterly.
~Hilaire Belloc
Love is rarer than
genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~Charles Peguy
I have lost my
seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without
realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
~Jean Cocteau
All who consult on
doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
~Sallust
Love and
friendship exclude each other.
~Jean de la
Bruyere
The rare few, who,
early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
~James Whistler
To like and
dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
~Sallust
The firmest
friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
~Sallust
It may be a cold,
clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other
selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
~E. W. Howe
Great is the
victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
~Emil Zatopek
Friendship is an
arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
~Charles de
Montesquieu
Friendship is
mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
~Robin Morgan
The little trouble
in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
~E. W. Howe
You know, real
life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.'
That's not a given, it's a process.
~Viggo Mortensen
Sincere friendship
towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing
being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it
no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
~Jonathan Edwards
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