Ceremony Quote by William Shakespeare

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy,…

— Jane Porter

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish…

— Dag Hammarskjold

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days,…

— Washington Irving

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

— Robert Blair

VALUE OF FRIENDS Give me kind friends, true friends in need, Who don no idle, winning wiles, And who will be true friends, indeed.…

— Bhaboo

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

— Cardinal Richelieu

In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is…

— Walter Savage Landor

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness…

— Omar Khayyam

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness”

— David Whyte

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor…

— Jeremy Taylor

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

— Mary Astell