Samuel Johnson Friendship Quotations

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue

With regard to the sharpest and most melting sorrow, that which arises from the loss of those whom we have loved with tenderness, it may be observed, that friendship between mortals can be contracted on no other terms than that one must some time mou

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation....

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.