 I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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Quotations about friends and friendship
Osho – Friendship is the purest love
 Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
– Osho |
Henry Brooks Adams – One friend in a life-time is much
 One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
– Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
William Temple Hornaday – He who knows the animals of the world
 He who knows the wild animals of the world always travels among friends, and in every land he finds a welcome.
– William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) |
Marcus Tullius Cicero – Friendship improves happiness
 Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) |
Abraham Lincoln – Destroying enemies
 Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
– Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
Jane Austen – Aquainted with one another
 Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
– Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
Groucho Marx – When you’re in jail, a good friend. . .
 When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’.
– Groucho Marx (Oct 2, 1890-Aug 19, 1977) |
Samuel Johnson – Making new acquaintences through life
 If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
David Hume – Friendship is a calm and sedate affection
 Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.
– David Hume (1711-1776) |
George Vest – The noble dog by the graveside
 If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.
– George Vest (1830-1904) |
Aristotle – What is a friend?
 What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) |
