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QUOTES including the word: "friendship"

Cicero:
  • Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

  • Herman Melville:
  • Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

  • Jane Austen:
  • Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

  • Wollstonecraft:
  • Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

  • Wanda Landowska:
  • Friendship is more important than truth.

  • Thomas Aquinas:
  • There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

  • Khalil Gibran:
  • And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  • Darwin:
  • A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

  • Montaigne:
  • If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

  • Washington:
  • Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

  • Khalil Gibran:
  • Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  • Oscar Wilde:
  • Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  • William James:
  • Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.