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Quotes About Companionship

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~ John Evelyn
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
~ William Wycherley
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
~ Francis Marion Crawford
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
~ Kenneth Branagh
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
~ Augustine Birrell
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
~ Ernst Mayr
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
~ Unknown
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
~ Samuel Richardson
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
~ Eugene Kennedy
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
~ William Hazlitt
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
~ Enrique Iglesias
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
~ Unknown
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
~ Thomas Fuller
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
~ Joseph Addison
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~ Michel de Montaigne
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
~ Truman Capote
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin