Quotes About The Joys Of Friendship

#1. Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#2. Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

Salman Rushdie

#3. A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

Al-Ghazali

#4. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Euripides

#5. Look at us," Emerson laughs, "A couple of bleeding hearts.

Colleen Masters

#6. Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Ira Sachs

#8. Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Warren G. Harding

#9. Paola Calvetti takes readers on a delicious trip through Italy, books, letters and love, reminding us all of the joys of a completely compelling read."
Cathie Beck, author of Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship

Paola Calvetti

#10. Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#11. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

S.A. Huchton

#12. I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

Will Rogers

#13. Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Francis Bacon

#16. Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes ... and whatever lies upon the heart ...

Francis Bacon

#17. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Benjamin Franklin

#18. The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high as he
-from his resignation letter to Graham's Magazine

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. Fate was a bitch, but she always had a wicked sense of humor. Today, he was her punch line. Tomorrow, she'd be laughing at them.
-Darling's thoughts

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. Here's hoping that your special day
Will be more 'happy ever after'
With all the joys of friendship,
Love, fun and laughter

John Walter Bratton

#21. The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Bradley Chicho

#22. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Simone Weil