Quote - Friendship from the Pens of the Artists

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . .

It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.     

C. S. Lewis

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels, with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth an inhabited garden.      

Goethe

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.   

Aristotle

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.   

Mark Twain

In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.    

Alexander Pope.

A friend is a present you give yourself.    

Robert Louis Stevenson