Affinity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is a bond between persons who may not be equal in qualification, talent, money or age but equal in their commitment to understand…

— Nit

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it…

— Ouida

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

— Rowan Williams

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it…

— Wallace Stegner

Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time.…

— Dacia Maraini

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue…

— Thomas Carlyle

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or…

— David Hume

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there…

— Alexander Nehamas

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can…

— Walter Savage Landor

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

— Thalia

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

— William Hazlitt