Friendship Quotes

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• There’s nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.
• To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
• When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn’t win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I’m proud to be in this company that way.
• A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
• My theme is, ‘The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.’ Not money. Not the World Series. It’s friendship. The relationships I have with people, that’s enough to keep me happy.
• Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it’s because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created – that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.
• A traitor is a betrayer – one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
• I know Donald Trump. I’ve met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I’m going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.
• When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship – ‘Ode to Friendship.’ Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
• There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.
• The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.
• I think the truth about male friendship is often left out of the media, and it’s that it has a million different shades, because masculinity has a million different forms.
• Love, friendship, networking – these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.
• I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.
• You know, real life doesn’t just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can’t just say, ‘She’s my best friend.’ That’s not a given, it’s a process.
• Friendship is something that is cultivated.
• I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
• If I’m right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.
• It’s so great to be able to express the friendship between men.
• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn’t mean I follow anyone’s agenda.
• When you start a relationship, there’s part of the friendship that dies – you can never go back.
• Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities – good and bad.
• Longevity in friendship is very important and one of the keys to the foundation of a happy life.
• No one works with an actor or a director for friendship.
• Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
• I enjoy the time passing. I think it’s a privilege to be in friendship with time.
• As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
• Two of man’s basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
• We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
• Sometimes people walk into plays by accident – they don’t even know what they’re looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
• One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
• I have a couple of best friends, and I don’t think I would live with them. It definitely… certain people can’t live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.
• ‘Mistresses’ is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.
• Yeah, I miss it. You don’t just break off a friendship you’ve had with a sport, and with all those you’ve met all over the country. We’ve got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there’s nothing in the game of baseball that hasn’t happened to me.
• I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don’t know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.
• I told God, ‘I don’t want a man. I don’t want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.’ And God gave it to me.
• My book ‘Ali Pasha’ tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
• Whether it’s music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship – if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
• I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I’m lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It’s difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
• I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we’re just intimate, but because we’re mentally intimate. So I’m waiting for that person to come into my life.
• I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I’m ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world’s biggest R.E.M. fan.
• French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
• In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
• People instantly assume you can’t have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. – or America.
• I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I’m writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it’s important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other – and to develop their friendship on the page.
• Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
• I don’t need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I’ve never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word ‘friend.’ I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
• I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
• 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
• Here’s a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That’s not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm’s way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship – and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
• And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
• But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
• This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
• I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
• No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
• Friendship’s the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
• It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There’s not a lot of love going around.
• Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
• I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
• Rock n’ roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
• At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
• Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning.
• If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
• The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
• Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
• In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
• In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
• People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It’s so fun. People are busting each other’s chops, and it’s a sign of affection, truly. It’s a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit ’em hard.
• My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
• That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
• It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
• The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
• The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
• Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
• China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
• I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
• And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
• I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
• What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
• The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
• There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.
• My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
• Watching John Lasseter’s films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he’s doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
• I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace’s isn’t such a stretch.
• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that’s just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
• I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
• There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
• Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty – attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
• Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
• You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
• Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.
• Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
• I’ve got many close friends, but there’s an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
• We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
• For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do.
• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
• One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
• During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
• I play- it’s kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what’s their friendship like, and what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
• Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
• The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
• But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
• I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that’s gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
• India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
• If you’re going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone’s not being a good friend to you and isn’t treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
• Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
• The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
• I didn’t like England. I couldn’t take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren’t understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
• When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
• Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
• Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.
• Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society.
• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
• I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
• Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can’t remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
• Came but for friendship, and took away love.
• Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
• The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
• I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
• I’m calling my book series the ‘with God series.’ And this next ‘with God’ book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of ‘better’ on this planet.
• The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
• Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
• Stop using the word ‘bromance.’ Can we please kill that stupid term? We’re just friends. It’s called friendship!
• There is no friendship in trade.
• The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
• A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
• Usually, you don’t have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.
• I lend people money, but I’d never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn’t get it back.
• Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
• Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
• Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
• Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
• A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.
• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
• Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I’ve not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
• Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
• To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
• I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
• I’ve got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn’t going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
• Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
• When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
• Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I’d probably choose success.
• Aristotle uses a mother’s love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
• My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
• Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
• Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
• Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
• Love and friendship exclude each other.
• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
• A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
• The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
• Friendship’s the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure.
• Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
• When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
• Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we’re all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we’ve done all our lives pointless.
• I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don’t know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
• Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
• Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
• I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
• Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
• Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
• I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
• It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
• Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
• When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you’re suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
• It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
• The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
• Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
• But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
• Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
• General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
• Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
• I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
• One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
• The friendship that can cease has never been real.
• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
• Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
• The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
• My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
• Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
• Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
• Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
• In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
• People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
• I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that’s for life.
• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
• If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
• If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
• Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
• Friendship is Love without his wings!
• What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
• Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
• Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
• The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.
• Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
• It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
• Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.
• One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
• If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
• I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
• How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
• No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
• Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
• A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
• A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
• The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don’t need any fingers.
• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
• Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
• Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
• A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.
• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
• Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
• Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.
• Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
• All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
• Friends are born, not made.
• One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
• Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
• A friend is, as it were, a second self.
• It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
• It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
• Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.
• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
• Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
• Friendship and money: oil and water.
• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
• A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
• The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
• She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
• Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
• Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
• Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
• I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
• ‘Safe Harbor’ is a state of mind… it’s the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.
• Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.
• I’ve remained in touch with more than a dozen descendants of Gremlin Special survivors, victims, and rescuers. I treasured my friendship with Earl Walter Jr., the lead paratrooper who jumped into the valley to protect the survivors.
• I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I’ve always been a Democrat, and I’ve had different views than Mitt Romney. I’m not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.
• For me, ‘Lamb’ started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in ‘Coyote Blue’ and ‘Island of the Sequined Love Nun,’ but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
• Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.
• I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.
• Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
• I went to boarding school in the country, so there’s no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 – it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I’ll do anything for you.
• The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I’d record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you’ve heard about Graceland during Elvis’s glory days is true and then some.
• I still have a great friendship with my eldest son’s mum. She’s my mate. We have this wonderful son who’s 6 ft. 3, gorgeous, and I’m his dad. I’ve not been a total failure.
• I’ve often been told that I’m a 30-year-old trapped in a teenager’s body. I don’t know how I feel about that, but I’ll take it, I guess. I’m definitely mature, and I’m the one that takes care of everyone in my friendship group.
• There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you.
• So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there’s a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.
• It’s been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don’t have any shot of getting a theatrical release.
• Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.
• The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel – I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
• From the Twitter responses we got with ‘Best Friends Forever’ and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.
• As much as ‘It Chapter One’ is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more about trauma.
• I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers – knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!
• We want ‘Doll & Em’ to be something we’re proud of. We’d love to do another series, but it’s not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.
• I love ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Extras’ and also ‘The Trip.’ That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.
• The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn’t the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.
• As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn’t treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.
• I’ve enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons… and I’d like to keep it that way.
• When I met Bjork, I felt like it was a friendship first; it was like an oxygen you get from a person you only can exist with symbiotically. It’s one of the most beautiful relationships I’ve had. She is incredible.
• The orchid’s association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.
• The bracelet says ‘Fear Nothing.’ It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it’s a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.
• As far as ‘Final Destination’ and its creator, Jeffrey Reddick, are concerned, whenever Jeffrey calls, because of our friendship, I have to listen.
• As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they’re really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
• The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren’t for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.
• I really wasn’t even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
• Richard Donner’s friendship and guidance showed me that there’s more to life than being an actor.
• My relationship with Shinsuke – I mean, he’s a tremendous guy, we’ve maintained our friendship for well over a decade, and he’s one of those incredible, rare, once-in-a-lifetime athletes whose ability transcends international border, which is something that’s not often able to be done.
• I’m constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don’t know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.
• MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I’m not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
• Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.
• Our first conversation went like: ‘So, what do you do in the Philippines for fun?’ ‘Well, I like to rap and breakdance.’ And Will was like, ‘What?? Me too!’ That sparked our friendship and from then on, we were inseparable.
• I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I’m not going to diss them. But you don’t really have any guarantees that what you’re reading wasn’t written out of friendship or spite.
• It’s kind of a weird thing when you’ve been at the top of a division you’ve been in your entire career to kind of take a backseat because of friendship.
• Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.
• One of my best friendships dwindled in the pub business – we still talk, but it challenged that friendship too much – and that taught me to go into football and find people that I can have good relations with but without being overly friendly.
• I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games – where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don’t remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don’t remember what came first, ‘Robot Chicken’ or our friendship, because we’ve known each other for so long.
• I’m loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
• Shows like ‘Sex and the City’ got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
• I’ve met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it’s just not real. We’ve set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that’s supposed to be a community, like a real community. It’s supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.
• I find that when I’m in a relationship, I’m just so ‘in it,’ you couldn’t even call it an art; it’s such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.
• Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking – the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
• When I was first pitched the show, I was like, ‘Oh, God, a soapy show called ‘Mistresses.” But it wasn’t that at all. It wasn’t a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.
• It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.
• My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
• The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.
• I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
• We wouldn’t ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn’t fall apart back in the late ’80s. It wasn’t like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.
• Stretching back nearly three decades, Brian Williams and I have forged an enduring friendship. It all began in 1986 at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and has resulted in a set of noteworthy experiences, amazing successes, and a bunch of trips to NASCAR speedways.
• My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I’ll have friends in real life that I don’t follow on social media, because I don’t really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.
• The first time I got into astrology was being in New York. I was like, ‘Oh, this is a real thing here!’ Now, I’ll Google what your sign is and what my sign is to see the predictions of friendship, and I find that really cool. But that’s the most I know.
• I not only enjoy a really great friendship with both my girls but also a close mother-daughter bond as well.
• Friendship is the most important thing of all.
• I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
• No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.
• You can be really romantic and put a lot of effort into friendship.
• My favorite thing about ‘Superbad’ is it values male friendship.
• Most friendship groups will have someone who starts a new relationship, and you just don’t see them for four months. And that’s always kind of sad, almost like an inverted break up. I guess the ideal situation is that whoever the new partner is can be subsumed into the friendship group.
• When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
• I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots – not every robot, but certain kinds of robots – where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it’s going to be of a robot-human kind.
• I’m friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I’m posting a picture of me and my friend.
• There would be no Mauro Ranallo in MMA, or maybe even period, to be truly honest with you… without Bas Rutten’s friendship, mentorship, and just belief in my talents.
• I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that’s where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there’s always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
• When I was working on my first novel, ‘The Quilter’s Apprentice,’ I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women’s friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
• Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
• Of course, the E.U. were never going to welcome Brexit. Some sour grapes were inevitable. That’s why we worked hard to leave on positive terms, extending the arm of friendship.
• My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
• I’ve come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase ‘female friendship,’ because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.
• I think that the friendship that women share is so powerful. In fact, there’s nothing quite like it. People talk about mother-child bonds, but I would argue that female friendship bond is also in a league unto its own.
• If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we’re all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the ‘kibbutz.’
• I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It’s an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.
• There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.
• The key to doing ‘Harold and Kumar’ movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar’s relationship and friendship believable, and we don’t actually work on being that funny.
• Everybody knows that Coutinho is a great footballer – here in England, they call him ‘The Magician.’ He made his decision to join Barcelona, but every time we meet and play for the Selecao, we have a good chat and maintain that friendship. He is an exceptional guy and one of the best friends football has given me.
• Whenever there is a new song out, we’ll sometimes try to rehearse a celebration so when one of us scores a goal, we can celebrate it together. I find this a nice thing between team-mates to show the friendship between us, and I try to do this whenever I can.
• If you aren’t respected by someone, how can the friendship with them be valued?
• I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!
• I think ‘Pretty Little Liars’ is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There’s suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it’s going to have something for everybody.
• I think every relationship has its ups and downs. I think that’s a part of whether you’re married or whether you’re in friendship or in business, right? They all have their ups and downs, and I think it’s just a normal part of life.
• Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one’s words are very important.
• I love the Dream Theater guys dearly and have a long history, friendship, and bond that runs incredibly deep with them – it’s just that I think we are in serious need of a little break.
• Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is – if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
• Kuwait has been a strong partner to the United States, and the royal family has maintained an enduring and sincere friendship with my family for generations.
• Friendship and loyalty shouldn’t come in the way of casting.
• I think I’d probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we’d get along, and I’d, like, chill him out because he’d be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I’d be like, ‘Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.’ And he’d be like, ‘Thanks, Ron.’ And then we’d form a friendship.
• My friendship with The Doobie Brothers never really changed. We’re all still good friends, and I really admire those guys a lot.
• When you’ve known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
• Don’t let this music industry or any industry come between friendship. Just stay focused on your goals.
• Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it’s not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it’s an unhealthy connection.
• Henley’s one of my favorite singers. I’ve maintained a friendship with Don over the years.
• I despise shows that present friendship where you’re always there for each other and really strong because I don’t know anyone like that. I mean, I’ve got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, ‘I just can’t deal with having to give you anything.’
• Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen’ upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.
• I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I’m good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.
• Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
• Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.
• That’s so rare in the world of TV or film to have a genuine friendship turn into something that people watch, that people relate to. That’s so unique.
• I saw some really amazing stuff with Axl. We worked really well together. We were good friends. And I hope to perhaps have that friendship back one day, although it’s not something I wait around for.
• We are committed to the development of friendship and good neighbourly relations with Pakistan. I believe that Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shares this commitment.
• In every democracy, it is the people’s will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.
• Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.
• Female friendship… I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.
• Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
• In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.
• If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there’s a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
• It’s quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It’s a difficult balance.
• To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary – these are all the things that sort of defined him.
• Most of the things in your life are not in your control – the family you are born into, the parents, and the siblings you have. It is only friendship and love that you create for yourself in this lifetime.
• Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.
• I think what ‘The Hobbit’ and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship… so they’re things that do resonate with people.
• I served as the chairman of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group for three years, during which I also had the pleasure of visiting Israel.
• The world is more competitive and social media drives this. It’s woman against woman when it comes to appearance, possessions and friendship circles.
• In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.
• I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can’t live without each other.
• To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
• The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
• So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
• I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.
• I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that’s involves business and friendship – and the business part comes to an end – things always get a little blurry.
• Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
• Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
• They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
• He who hath many friends hath none.
• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
• Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it’s a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
• The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
• He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
• A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
• When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
• An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
• A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
• Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
• Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
• A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
• 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.
• Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
• CPEC is an epoch-making project going to put Pakistan-China friendship and their economic cooperation to new heights.
• Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
• Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
• To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.
• I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what’s happening to the Earth and the like.
• Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than ocean, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel.
• All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
• I take friendship very seriously.
• You can’t build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
• I think friendship in football is a massive part of the team.
• Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.
• I don’t think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
• I’m a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I… our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I’ve gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I’m a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
• As soon as I started working at the ‘Los Angeles Times,’ people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the ‘friendship’ is genuine.
• I didn’t have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I’ll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women’s Advisory Council with me.
• The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
• People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.
• Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love – it’s a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don’t expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
• When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who’ve had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they’re married, or there’s a friendship and a kinship.
• I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.
• A lot of women, when they’re young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It’s easy to be friends when everyone’s 18.
• It’s always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people’s feelings.
• Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
• I’m quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It’s such an art, so delicate.
• The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
• The solution as consumers is – perhaps surprisingly – to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them – the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
• We should have a good working friendship with the United States.
• America is stronger because of President Obama’s leadership, and I’m better because of his friendship.
• We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.
• Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.
• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
• Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
• The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
• It’s the most exciting thing to watch God work when I’ve asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It’s like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
• I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
• The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
• You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
• Once you’re on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends – you can play against big friends and close friends – but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.
• My book, ‘Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,’ is a gay love story. It’s also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it’s also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.
• Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they’re desolate.
• Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate for the way that work has devoured time once spent cultivating friendships.
• Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
• Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
• I don’t think I could live with someone that I didn’t have an intellectual friendship with.
• What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
• When we look at the wider picture, the relationship between the U.K. and America, I know how valuable the friendship is between our two nations. As home secretary, I can tell the House that the importance of the relationship between our countries, the unparalleled sharing of intelligence between our countries, is vital.
• Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.
• My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.
• What’s quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it’s born out of genuine friendship. And nobody’s infringing on anybody’s space.
• I criticized Nawaz Sharif’s personal friendship with Modi, but my point has been that there should be good and friendly ties between India and Pakistan at state level. But friendship between these two leaders hasn’t turned into a friendly relationship between the two states.
• I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn’t be where I am if I hadn’t.
• I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it’s still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
• My off-camera friendship with Brock Lesnar has always been different than my off-camera friendship with CM Punk. But I could not tell you that I am closer to either one of them or either one of them is closer to me. It’s just a different relationship.
• I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
• There are some good space battles in some of the later series, but that wasn’t why you were tuning in every week. You were tuning in every week because Spock was a fascinating character. Because his friendship with Kirk was profound and really unusual.
• Obviously, when you’re up against somebody you don’t like there’s extra motivation, but I don’t think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
• A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.
• Friendship is a personal issue, and it should remain that way.
• I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
• Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
• There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one’s a bit spiky and the other’s daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.
• People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university – very close mates – long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.
• Every friendship is different because everyone’s personality is different.
• I haven’t expressed this too much in public, but I have a friendship to a degree with Bruce Springsteen.
• There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable – this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
• I like friendship.
• A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It’s also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.
• There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it’s rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get ‘overworked’ and need to rest.
• There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.
• Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
• You turn ‘Insecure’ on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls.
• When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience – and not through knee-jerk adult intervention – what a healthy friendship should look like.
• In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner’s foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
• Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
• I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
• Following one of the most violent conflicts in human history, the United States and Japan built a deep and abiding friendship – an alliance that has underwritten unprecedented economic growth and security in the Asia Pacific for half a century. It is an alliance based on mutual interests and shared values and the ties between our people.
• Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
• Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women’s styles of friendship and conversation aren’t inherently better than men’s, simply different.
• I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.
• I think about growing up back in Philly. It was about friendship with the guys and having a distant crush on some gal. And when you finally got the nerve to take her out on a date, you went to her parents’ house with a shine on your shoes, took her to the movies, and got her home nice and early.
• To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
• There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship – it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.
• I firmly believe, only because I’ve been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don’t get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It’s hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I’d dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, ‘What’s wrong with you? Gross!’
• Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn’t a friendship when – as, for example, it’s me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn’t matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.
• When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment – we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It’s the opening for friendship.
• You can never maintain a friendship if you don’t tell the truth, even if it hurts.
• Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
• When I was growing up, I thought everything was a life of friendship, respect, and sharing. But I discovered that unfortunately, you have people who aren’t behaving in the same way but have hatred.
• I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it’s my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I’ve known him for 30 years, and he’s making my dresses most of the time.
• We are aware that globalization doesn’t mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn’t mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
• The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister’s office or President’s office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.
• We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is ‘no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.’ We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
• I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
• In a basic sense, ‘A Little Life’ is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It’s a different version of adulthood, but it’s no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else’s.
• We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship – I repeat – of cooperation with the United States.
• Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.
• Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn’t have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter.
• When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is ‘iron brother.’ To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as ‘Iron Pak.’ This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship.
• I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
• We will pursue a relationship of friendship and co-operation with the United States, always rooted in mutual respect and in the defence of our fellow Mexicans who live and work honourably in that country.
• China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.
• Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn’t codified and celebrated; it’s never going to give you a party.
• Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal.
• I think everyone is always so surprised to see the friendship that I have with The Vixen. We are very supportive of each other.
• As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
• Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly; friendship follows fast.
• I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together – all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds of friendship are planted.
• Taft was Roosevelt’s handpicked successor. I didn’t know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early ’30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.
• It’s kind of crazy to think that I’ve now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents.
• There’s really not much friendship between the girls on tour. There’s so much rivalry and jealousy, so everyone just hangs out in their own camp. In the locker room and players’ lounge, you can feel the jealousy.
• There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That’s it.
• I don’t think it’s more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there’s a place for female friendship that’s really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I’ve gotten older, it’s become much more important to me.
• Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn’t sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship?
• I think ‘Pose’ is unique in that it’s not just a trans story – it’s about family. It’s about love. It’s about friendship and acceptance and really deconstructing humanity, and the ethical side of that, with how we treat people who are different than us.
• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai’i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
• Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship – two of life’s major assets.
• The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
• To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it’s a thrill to start a friendship even up.
• My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
• Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
• Sweat makes good friendship cement.
• My mom and I always had a great bond. It was always a natural friendship bond since early on. My mom was 18 when she had me.
• Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.
• Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.
• Matching tattoos don’t ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.
• It’s business inside the ring, but outside it, it’s friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.
• The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.
• Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.
• I’ve become close with Masoud Esmaeilpour and consider him a friend. We send each other messages from time to time on Instagram, checking in to see how the other is doing. Whenever I see him, he’s always a gentleman, giving me tips about my next opponent. There is a tremendous amount of respect in our friendship.
• Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel – and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that’s in dating, friendship, or business.
• When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, ‘Hey, I’d like you to score this film ‘The Social Network,’ I said, ‘I’m flattered, but I really don’t have any real experience scoring films, and I’d rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don’t want to compromise our friendship.’
• I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It is hard to name an area where hospitality, friendship, culture, ambition, and beauty are so highly regarded.
• Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing – and friendship is about all of those things, too.
• On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
• Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole – I can’t imagine a life without them.
• I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
• I rekindled a friendship I hadn’t had in a long time, and I was reminded of all the parts of me that had left. I was like, ‘Wow, I love to paint and to write and to be outside.’
• Love comes in all different shapes and forms – from friendship and sisters and mums – and as I’ve got older, I’ve definitely learned that some of my happiest times have been when I’ve been on my own.
• The knot of intimacy at the center of ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
• A friendship between Germany and Israel didn’t always seem natural.
• That a friendship ends doesn’t mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.
• I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I’m unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
• Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
• Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
• The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.
• Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that’s what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren’t friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
• Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I’m going to get them out of my way.
• If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.
• It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
• I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we’d talk on the phone, and if I wasn’t doing anything, I’d fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house – on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.
• It’s – I mean, the Olympics, what is it? It’s an international competition to foster friendship and – and competition across – across the planet, and I think that’s exactly what the International Space Station is.
• In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called ‘Welcome to Lostville.’ One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for ‘Blood on the Tracks.’
• One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that’s not always the case.
• I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
• I have two or three guys that I’m really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It’s hard to start… with new people and cover the ground that I’ve covered with those guys.
• I was in high school – and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.
• What I love about ‘Save Me Tonight’ is that it came to be through friendship. It was a perfect scenario for friends to come together and create.
• Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
• I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
• November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson’s at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.
• The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can’t predict who will or won’t be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.
• A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
• Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
• I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God’s hands, to trust in Jesus who – while I wrote my book on him – I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
• I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I’m going to take advantage of that. I’m not going to apologize for that.
• I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I’ll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.
• I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
• My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
• When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
• Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
• Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
• Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.
• A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
• We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world – but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
• You win the victory when you yield to friends.
• You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
• A friend in power is a friend lost.
• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
• How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
• I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
• Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
• I love all girl squads. I’m all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I’m all about that.
• I got to sing with Placido Domingo… I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I’m also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.
• I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.
• There are a lot of musicians I’ve met on Twitter where it was like, ‘Hey, I like your music’ – and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.
• I’ve always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.
• Ultimately, it’s a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.
• I definitely have guys that I’m friends with that I have a crush on, and you don’t want to ruin the friendship.
• Primarily, ‘Black Girl/White Girl’ is the story of two very different, yet somehow ‘fated’ girls; for Genna, her ‘friendship’ with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
• My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, ‘As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.’
• When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
• A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
• What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you’re opening and cares about you. There’s a real village atmosphere.
• I’ve heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren’t, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.
• When I read ‘Stand By Me,’ it was like, ‘This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.’ That’s what got to me.
• A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
• The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn’t want that?
• Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
• With friendship, it’s hard sometimes – you don’t outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it’s okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.
• A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
• I have learned that friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who came and never left your side.
• In the end, believe me, there will be no friendship between Trump and Putin.
• If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
• When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.
• Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
• At the end of every tunnel, there is a light somewhere, a light of hope and reason, and a light to guide us to the safety from the dark, to outstretched hands there. These hands hold out friendship, something everyone needs, for friendship brings a wealth much more than anything money can buy, for without this wealth, many of us would just shrivel up and die.
• Flowers will die, the sun will set, but you’re a friend I won’t forget. Your name is so precious, it will never grow old. It’s engraved in my heart in letters of gold.
• You give me reasons to smile and reasons to laugh, but most of all, you give me memories I could never forget.
• True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.
• Here together, friends forever. Some things were just meant to be, and that’s you and me.
• Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.
• I don’t have friends, I have family.
• The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now.
• Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.
• An old friend is never an extra guest.
• It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends.
• The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.
• True friends are always together in spirit.
• Friendship isn’t about being inseparable, but about being separated and knowing nothing will change.
• Anyone can change your life, if you let them.
• It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
• I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
• Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
• We made a deal ages ago… men, babies, it doesn’t matter. We’re soulmates.
• Louise, no matter what happens, I’m glad I came with you.
• My dream wouldn’t be complete without you in it.
• Every minute spent in your company becomes the new best moment of my life.
• You and I are a team. Nothing is more important than our friendship.
• When you’re the best of friends having so much fun together… you’re not even aware, you’re such a funny pair.
• I’ll miss you when I wake up.
• No matter what happens, you’ll always be a prince to me.
• We’re a family, we stick together.
• You’ve got a friend in me.
• When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.
• If you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.
• Some people are worth melting for.
• I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Never, no, never. Your friendship is the best present ever.
• If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
• We didn’t even realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.
• We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
• Only a true friend would be that truly honest.
• Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
• Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
• You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
• Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.
• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
• True friends stab you in the front.
• He that is jealous is not in love.
• Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
• Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
• It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
• Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
• Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever.
• Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.
• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
• I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
• There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.
• Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
• Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
• It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
• Losing friends that are easily lost is no loss at all.
• Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
• True enemies are better than false friends.
• A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
• Iron sharpens iron; so one man sharpens another.
• The righteous person is a guide to his friend, but the path of the wicked leads them astray.
• A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
• Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
• Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
• Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor.
• And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
• Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good.
• Do not be deceived: Bad company ruins good morals.
• It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
• In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.
• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
• The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
• One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
• What a good favor God does to those he places in the company of good people!
• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
• Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
• Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
• Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness.
• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
• Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
• Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life-and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
• When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
• Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.
• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
• The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
• Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
• The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
• There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
• The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
• Friends, though absent, are still present.
• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
• True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
• Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.
• What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
• That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.
• We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
• True friendship isn’t about being inseparable it’s being separated and nothing changes.
• One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
• True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
• It’s not that other people don’t get me at all… It’s that you get me completely.
• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• I often find myself saying a little prayer of thanks for you.
• The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
• Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.
• Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
• Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
• That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
• We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
• I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
• There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.
• If you set out to do what you really want to do, you may lose a lot of friends but you will not lose a single friend who is worth having.
• A friend is someone you can share your incomplete thoughts with. People need a private space where they can speak and refine their work in progressx9d thinking.
• What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
• Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.
• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
• Love is friendship set on fire.
• Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.
• The verb ‘to love’ in Persian is ‘to have a friend’. ‘I love you’ translated literally is ‘I have you as a friend’.
• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
• Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
• Love everyone with a deep love based on charity, but form friendships only with those who can share virtuous things with you. The higher the virtues you share and exchange with others, the more perfect your friendship will be.
• A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
• Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring the most basic part of love.
• The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
• Love is a friendship set to music.
• Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
• Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad.
• If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
• It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
• We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
• In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
• We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
• Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
• What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
• A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
• Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.
• We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
• If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
• ‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
• A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
• You are I are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang.
• The older I get the more selective I am of who is in my tribe. I would rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies.
• A day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
• The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent.
• We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall I will pick you up after I finish laughing.
• Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
• The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before he comes over.
• There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships.
• True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.
• No one will ever be as entertained by us as us.
• I like to hang out with people who make me forget to look at my phone.
• 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.
• The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
• I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
• I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
• Friendship is love minus sex plus reason: Love is friendship plus sex minus reason.
• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
• I love how badass we think we are when we’re together.
• Your friend is your needs answered.
• A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
• The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
• It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
• Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
• When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
• Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good.
• Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
• The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
• Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
• The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
• Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
• Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
• When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
• If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.
• When was the last time you asked your friend how he/she was doing?
• If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
• One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
• A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
• Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you.
• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
• You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
• The best cure for a bad day is a good friend.
• Friendships are discovered rather than made.
• The secret to friendship is being a good listener.
• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself.
• Friendship is essentially a partnership.
• The best mirror is an old friend.
• The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
• Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.
• Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.
• Between friends, words are optional.
• Opposition is true friendship.
• Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
• Love is friendship on fire.
• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
• No friendship is an accident.
• Friendship = vulnerability * time.
• Friends are the family you choose.
• True friendships are eternal.
• Life is nothing without friendship.
• A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
• Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
• Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
• We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend.
• Friends are proved by adversity.
• My friends are my estate.
• I get by with a little help from my friends.
• We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh? asked Piglet. Even longer. Pooh answered.
• A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
• As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.
• Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
• If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
• The only way to have a friend is to be one.
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
• Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
• Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
• Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it.
• Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
• Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times.
• Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
• The friendship which can cease has never been real.
• A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
• A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
• Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
• Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
• The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
• There cannot be friendship without equality.
• A friend is a gift you give yourself.
• Man’s best support is a very dear friend.
• My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.
• Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
• Stayx9d is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
• Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
• How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
• Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
• There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
• One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
• It’s not what we have, but who we have.
• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
• Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.
• A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.
• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
• True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
• I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
• Friendship is a sheltering tree.
• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them.
• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
• Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.