Friendship
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A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
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It is not so much friends help that helps, as confidence of their help.
Friends:, Friendship, Sympathy
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.
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Friends: we keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
Friends:, Friendship, Indifferent, Unimpressed
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Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’
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Friendship is equality.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Business, you know may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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There is little friendship in the world and least of all between equals.
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A degree of friendship is called slight when its object is poor or obscure and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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Greater love have no man than this, that he lays down his friends for his life.
[on Harold MacMillan’s cabinet re-shuffle]
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What men have called friendship is merely association, respect for each other’s interests and exchange of good offices. In fact, nothing more than a business arrangement from which self- love is always out to draw a profit.
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What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of the old ones or the pleasure of making a change, as displeasure at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hope of being more admired by those who do not yet know us well enough.
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The reason why friendship means so little to most women is that it is insipid once they have tasted love.
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier because of the things we do not know than because of those we know.
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Rare though true love may be, true friendship is rarer still.
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Friendships taken up again need more care than friendships never dropped.
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We do not always regret the loss of our friends because of their worth, but because of our own needs and the flattering opinion they had of us.
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The Holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime if not asked to lend money.
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We’re born alone we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we are not alone.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
