Friendship

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  • Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
        Sydney Smith   Best?
  • Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
        William Lloyd   Best?
  • Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
        Apuleius   Best?
  • He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
        Cicero   Best?
  • The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
        Joan Baez   Best?
  • When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
        Georgia O'Keeffe   Best?
  • I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
        Lawana Blackwell   Best?
  • Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
        Franklin P. Jones   Best?
  • A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
        Arthur Brisbane   Best?
  • Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Friendship is constant in all other things
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
        Ali ibn-Abi-Talib   Best?
  • Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
        Titus Maccius Plautus   Best?
  • The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
        Sun Tzu   Best?
  • Familiarity breed contempt.
        Aesop   Best?
  • America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • I'm not apt to be getting married in the near future and my lifestyle isn't apt to dramatically change as a result of any new relationship.
        Hugh Hefner   Best?
  • The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
        Evelyn Waugh   Best?
  • In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own "true" nature might never be known.
        David Darlington   Best?
  • America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
        Carl Sagan   Best?
  • Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
        Laurie Colwin   Best?
  • My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
        Jane Fonda   Best?
  • I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
        Elbert Hubbard   Best?
  • Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
        J. William Galbraith   Best?
  • Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.
        William Cowper   Best?
  • All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
        Lawrence J. Peters   Best?
  • Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
        A. J. Toynbee   Best?
  • Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.
        C. M. Cox   Best?
  • Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
        Charles Caleb Colton   Best?
  • Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
        Francis A. Carter   Best?
  • Friendship is love with understanding.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
        Charles Dudley Warner   Best?

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