F Quotes
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“Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.”
“Friendship: When you can talk nonsense and have that nonsense respected.”
“Friendship:
Where laughter echoes, trust speaks, and the adventure of life becomes
a shared treasure...!!”
“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.”
“Friendship will protect your heart from pain, bitterness, cancer and heart attack.”
“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“Friendship with ignorance is enmity with enlightenment.”
“Friendship with ignorance is enmity with light.”
“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“Friendship with oneself is all important.”
Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.”
“Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.”
“Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.”
“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”
“Friendship?
...
You wanna know what's friendship?
...
A Symbol of getting easily fucked up.”
Source: BuZoever
“Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner
“Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.”
“Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.”
“Friendship's full of dregs.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.”
Source: The relapse
“Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.”
“Friendship's the wine of life.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
“Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.”
Source: Proust
“Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.”
“Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.”
“Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.”
“Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways: A Novel
“Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.”
“Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete).
“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”
“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler
“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.”
“Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.”
“Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.”
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
“Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.”
“Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.”
Source: The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author
“Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.”
Source: Fallen in Love
“Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.”
“Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.”
“Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”
“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
“Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.”