"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
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friendship Quotes
"My friends are my estate."
"The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn."
"What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere."
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
"I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune."
"Friendship is something that is cultivated."
"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
"I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids."
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker."
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."