Friendship, as understood here, is a
distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a
concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the
other, for the other's sake, and that involves some degree
of intimacy. As such, friendship is undoubtedly central to
our lives, in part because the special concern we have for
our friends must have a place within a broader set of
concerns, including moral concerns, and in part because our
friends can help shape who we are as persons. Given this
centrality, important questions arise concerning the
justification of friendship and, in this context, whether
it is permissible to “trade up” when someone new comes
along, as well as concerning the possibility of reconciling
the demands of friendship with the demands of morality in
cases in which the two seem to conflict.
No one person can possibly combine
all the elements supposed to make up what everyone
means by friendship.
- Francis Marion Crawford
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million
little things.
- Author Unknown
Friendship is an arrangement by
which we undertake to exchange small favors for big
ones.
- Baron de Montesquieu
Friendship is a furrow in the
sand.
- Tongan Proverb
Friendship is love without his
wings.
- Lord Byron
The language of Friendship is not
words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above
language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship needs no words.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship is a word the very sight of which
in print makes the heart warm.
- Augustine Birrell
Friendship needs no words - it is
solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship is a disinterested
commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse
between tyrants and slaves.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Do you know what friendship is... it
is to be brother and sister;
two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on
one hand.
- Victor Hugo,
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world
to explain. It's not
something you learn in school. But if you haven't
learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't
learned anything.
- Muhammed Ali
Friendship is one mind in two
bodies.
- Mencius
Discussing the characters and foibes
of common friends is a great sweetener and cement of
friendship.
- William Hazlitt
Friendship is a common belief in the
same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.
- H. L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken
Friendship . . . It's not about
having friends, it's about being one.
Sacrificing your comforts and emotional stability to
further improve theirs.
- Suzanne J, Starr
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant,
and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- Cicero (44 B.C.)
Friendship is a strong and habitual
inclination in two persons to promote the good and
happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell (1711)
Friendship is but another name for
an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of
others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why
enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is a strong and habitual
inclination in two persons to promote the good and
happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a single soul dwelling
in two bodies.
- Aristotle
