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.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
~By Charles Eastman ~
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.
~By Pam Brown ~
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
~By David Storey ~
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
~By St. Jerome ~
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
~By Luke Ford ~
Opposition is true friendship.
~By William Blake ~
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
~By George Herbert ~
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.
~By Sean Bean ~
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.
~By Pietro Aretino ~
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~By David Elkind ~
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
~By Paul Getty ~
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~By Robert Blair ~
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
~By Ernie Banks ~
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
~By Thomas Moore ~
I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.
~By Sophia Bush ~
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.
~By Major Taylor ~
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
~By Carmen Sylva ~
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
~By William Hazlitt ~
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
All lasting business is built on friendship.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
~By Malcolm Arnold ~
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
~By George Washington ~
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
~By Sallust ~
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.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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.
~By Saint Basil ~
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.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
~By Saint Teresa ~
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
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.
~By Randy West ~
That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.
~By Michael McKean ~
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
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.
~By Bruce Lee ~
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.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
~By Joseph Parry ~
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
~By Seneca ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~By Voltaire ~
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.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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.
~By John Frusciante ~
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~By Jane Austen ~
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
~By William Glasser ~
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
~By Chanakya ~
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~By Albert Camus ~
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
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.
~By Paul Simon ~
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
~By Anais Nin ~
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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.
~By Eddie Murray ~
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
~By Tim Allen ~
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
~By Alvin Dark ~
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~By H. G. Wells ~
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.
~By William Shenstone ~
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!
~By William Hazlitt ~
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
~By Sallust ~
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
~By Charles Alexander Eastman ~
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
~By Namie Amuro ~
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
~By Nahum Tate ~
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
~By Robin Morgan ~
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~By William Hazlitt ~
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
~By Charles Darwin ~
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
~By Greg Louganis ~
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
~By Socrates ~
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
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