Activity Quote by Mary McCarthy

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

— Thalia

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole,…

— Margaret Mead

It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition…

— Alexander Nehamas

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 is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination…

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather…

— CS Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

— CS Lewis

My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or…

— Alexander Nehamas

Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances…

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is like a sunrise. It begins dim, but grows in intensity as the day goes on. It warms the hearts and lives of…

— Innah Delos Angeles

For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with…

— Arthur S Hardy