“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon
“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) Swiss author
Reflections on Suicide (Réflexions sur le suicide, 1813), Section 1