F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .”
“Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.”
“Friendship is a sacred word, a holy thing; it is never developed except between persons of character, and never takes root except through mutual respect; it flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity. What makes one friend sure of another is the knowledge of his integrity: as guarantees he has his friend's fine nature, his honor, and his constancy.”
Source: The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
“Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Source: The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya
“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.”
“Friendship is a strange idea, difficult to quantify and, at times, even more difficult to maintain. Clearly a friend is someone you enjoy spending time with. However, a friend is also someone you continue to support even during periods when they are considerably less pleasurable to be around. The loyalty of friendship often contains a kind of tautology or feedback loop: the longer you are friends the more loyal you become, and the more loyal you become the longer you remain friends.”
Source: Rich and Poor
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.”
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
“Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.”
“Friendship is a totally biased sample of the population: we only pick out the best ones.”
“Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.”
“Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.”
“Friendship is a two way street and neither of us are walking”
“Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.”
Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].
“Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
“friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.”
Source: The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...
“Friendship is all about opening up and letting in the highest-quality people you can find. It's about trusting a person enough to know that your dreams are supported and safe in his airspace, as well as supporting him in the same way when he needs it.”
Source: Get Off Your
“Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.”
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.”
Source: Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts
“Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.”
“Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”
“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
“Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy...”
“Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.”
Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women
“Friendship is an eternal relationship which never depreciate or deteriorate in value; but always increase and flourish in value.”
“Friendship is an intercourse of world. Mike Tyson became a friend of “Cus” D’Amato, and it took him from fighting on the street and going to prison to fighting in a ring for money.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.”
“Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.”
“Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.”
Source: The Portable Emerson
“Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.”
“Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to understand why they feel that way.”
Source: And Then, Boom!
“Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."”
Source: The Four Loves
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?”
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
Source: The Four Loves
“Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.”
“Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.”
Source: The art of love, and other poems
“Friendship is but a name. I love no one.”