Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Aristotle alikeexcellencefriendship Change image and share on social
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. Anita Brookner accountabilityequivalentfriendship Change image and share on social
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh crackfootballfriendship Change image and share on social
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject. Amity Shlaes biographerdrawfind Change image and share on social
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. Laura Riding artcalleasy share on social
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. Len Wein friendtrue Change image and share on social
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe brutedirectlyfidelity share on social
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig attractclosedifference Change image and share on social
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. Edward Gibbon desirefemalefriendship share on social
Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first. Katarina Johnson-Thompson extrafriendshipgold Change image and share on social