F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.”
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.”
Source: Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction
“Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“Friendship is communion.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.”
“Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.”
“Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.”
“Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn)”
Source: 10 Alone
“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
Source: The Godfather
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone”
“Friendship is far more delicate than love.”
Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington
“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.”
Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
“Friendship is finding the people who were missing and the people that you needed, or maybe sometimes you didn’t know that you needed them. And then they come along and they fill that inexplicable void.”
Source: Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
“Friendship is for fellowship.”
“Friendship is full of dregs.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Friendship is fusion of spirits. This may be too high to comprehend. But a true friendship is not a relationship that is physical; it's highly spiritual.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.”
“Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.”
“Friendship is having someone who supports and helps you no matter what.”
Source: Becoming True Friends In A Turbulent World
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.”
Source: The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
“Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.”
Source: Bono
“Friendship is identification and difference”
“Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."”
Source: Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1918-1922
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.”
“Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.”
“Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.”
“Friendship is just a made up word that we think means: I know you and trust you more than the average person I know. It really means: somewhere in the creation of our destinies we were meant to be the missing piece of each other with a bind unequaled to anything else in the world. We were meant to stay together no matter the physical distance. As long as we can both look up at the night sky and see the same moon we'll always have each other in sight.”
“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain, but when one has it there’s no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don’t think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn’t happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don’t need company, whether you are not in a mood to go out. No, don’t worry, they’ll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful.”
Source: The fall
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
“Friendship is like a good tea, it takes time to brew.”
“Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.”
“Friendship is like a walk in the wood; you may not know the terrain too well or even know where you are headed yet you enjoy it all the same!”
Source: The Best Option
“Friendship is like an investment; the best type yields the best profit for you! It's not just about making friends; it's about making right friends for the right reasons!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.”
Source: From another world: the autobiography of Louis Untermeyer
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”
“Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.”
“Friendship is love.”
Source: Becoming True Friends In A Turbulent World
“Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.”
“friendship is love made bearable.”
Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason”
“Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.”
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
“Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.”