Famous Quotes

"Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship."

Laura Riding on Friendship

More quotes about Friendship

• "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

  Elbert Hubbard on Friendship

• "Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

  Albert Camus on Friendship

• "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

  Buddha on Friendship

• "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

  Muhammad Ali on Friendship

• "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

  Oprah Winfrey on Friendship

More quotes by Laura Riding

• "Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship."

• "To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry."

• "The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself."

• "Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go."

• "I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest."