Adams Henry Brooks 1838-1918
The Education of Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Fiendship needs a certain parellelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Austen Jane 1775-1817
Emma
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays „Of Followers and Friends"
There is little firendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Bussy-Rabutin Comte de 1618-1693
Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour
Love comes from blindness,
Fiendship from knowledge.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
„L'Amitié est l'amour sans ailes"
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Carew Thomas c.1595-1640
„Inscription on Tomb of Lady Mary Wentworth"
Good to the poor, to kindred dear,
To servants kind, to friendship clear,
To nothing but herself severe.
Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832
Lacon
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Dryden John 1631-1700
Absalom and Achitophel
In friendship false, implacable in hate:
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Gay John 1685-1732
Dione
A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
Gay John 1685-1732
Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judged a partner in the trade.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Good-Natured Man
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Holmes Oliver Wendell 1809-1894
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays
The pleasing game of interchaging praise.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances thorough life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
McLaughlin Mignon
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Nathan George Jean 1882-1958
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Proverbs and Sayings
French
L'amour est aveugle; l'amitié ferme les yeux
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Riis Sharon
Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.
Sallust 86-34 BC
Catiline
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Santayana George 1863-1952
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
As You Like It
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Much Ado About Nothing
Friendship is constant in all other things
Eliot George 1819-1880
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude - roots that can be pulled up.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Meher Baba
Friendships are precious
Hugging friendships are very precious
On-going hugging friendships are the most
precious all.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Tocqueville Alexis de 1805-1859
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
