“Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?”
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“My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.”
“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
“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.”
“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
“Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.”
“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”
“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”
“Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.”
“Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.”
“Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
“You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.”
“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”
“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”
“To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.”
“The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.”
“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”
“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.”
“Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.”
“I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.”
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
“Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.”