Famous Quotes

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

Simone Weil 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 Simone Weil

• "We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

• "To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

• "Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

• "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

• "Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."