Active Quote by Niall Ferguson

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

— Mortimer Adler

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

— Anonymous

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

There are many different shapes of friendships to be had.

— Yolanda Hadid

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

— William Hazlitt

As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some…

— Steve Martin

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of…

— Harriet Lerner

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us…

— Esther Earl

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

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of…

— Phil Callaway