| friendship | |
| Abdul Baha | Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness f [read rest of quote] |
| Anais Nin | Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this mee [read rest of quote] |
| Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics | Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. |
| Arnold Bennett | It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and supe [read rest of quote] |
| Arnold H. Glasgow | Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. |
| Arnold Toynbee | America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. |
| C. S. Lewis | Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of [read rest of quote] |
| Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson | Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead h [read rest of quote] |
| Charles W. Eliot | Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of coun [read rest of quote] |
| Chauncey Depew | I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. |
| Cicero | Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. |
| Colette | It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. |
| Dag Hammarskjold | Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. |
| Elbert Hubbard | Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. |
| Elbert Hubbard | The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
| Evelyn Waugh | I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendsh [read rest of quote] |
| Evelyn Waugh | We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. |
| Franklin P. Jones | Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stra [read rest of quote] |
| George MacDonald | If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of [read rest of quote] |
| Gore Vidal | Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. |
| Groucho Marx | No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. |
| Henry David Thoreau | The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. |
| Henry Ford | My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. |
| Honore de Balzac | Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o [read rest of quote] |
| Jorge Luis Borges | My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventua [read rest of quote] |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Newspapers should have no friends. |
| Katherine Mansfield | I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to shar [read rest of quote] |
| Laurie Colwin | Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | The good man is the friend of all living things. |
| Marie de Rabutin-Chantal | True friendship is never serene. |
| Marilyn Ferguson | Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of th [read rest of quote] |
| Mark Twain | It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the [read rest of quote] |
| Marlene Dietrich | It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. |
| Mary Renault | It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. |
| Mortimer Adler | Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. |
| Muhammad Ali | Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendshi [read rest of quote] |
| Oscar Wilde | True friends stab you in the front. |
| Plutarch | I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much be [read rest of quote] |
| R. A. Dickson | Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to [read rest of quote] |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
| Rebecca West | There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them [read rest of quote] |
| Red Skelton | I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise. |
| Samuel Butler | Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he [read rest of quote] |
| Seneca | Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then [read rest of quote] |
| Shriekback |
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes |
| Spotted Tail | My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can [read rest of quote] |
| Toni Morrison | She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to [read rest of quote] |
| Virginia Woolf | Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can on [read rest of quote] |
| Voltaire | May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. |
| William Blake | It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. |