There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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.
~By August Strindberg ~
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
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 ~
And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
~By Eddie Murray ~
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
~By Sydney Smith ~
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
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 ~
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.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
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.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
~By Donald Johanson ~
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
~By William Glasser ~
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
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 ~
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
~By Sallust ~
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
~By Nahum Tate ~
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~By John Evelyn ~
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
~By Kent McCord ~
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
~By Eleanor Robson Belmont ~
These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.
~By Brian Welch ~
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 ~
Love and friendship exclude each other.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
~By Ovid ~
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
~By George Santayana ~
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
~By Seneca ~
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
~By Westbrook Pegler ~
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
~By Petrarch ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~By Voltaire ~
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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.
~By Truman Capote ~
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
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.
~By Tony Garza ~
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 ~
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
~By Christopher Knight ~
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
~By St. Jerome ~
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.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
~By Ernie Banks ~
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.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
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 ~
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
~By Carmen Sylva ~
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 ~
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
~By David Schwimmer ~
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
~By Stendhal ~
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.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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 ~
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
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.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
~By Jane Austen ~
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
~By Max Jacob ~
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~By Charles Peguy ~
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
~By Robin Morgan ~
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~By Jane Austen ~
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
~By Randolph Bourne ~
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~By Robert Blair ~
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.
~By John Tyler ~
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
~By Joseph Addison ~
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
~By Ernie Banks ~
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
~By Sophia Bush ~
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.
~By Russell Crowe ~
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.
~By James Joyce ~
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
~By Francis Marion Crawford ~
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 ~
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
~By Sallust ~
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.
~By John Robinson ~
I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
~By Charles Eastman ~
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
~By Stephanie Tubbs Jones ~
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Love is friendship set on fire.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
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.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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