Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
~By Max Jacob ~
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.
~By Dave Blood ~
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~By John Evelyn ~
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
~By Herman Melville ~
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
~By Warren Christopher ~
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
~By Joseph Addison ~
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Debra Messing ~
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 ~
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
~By Charles Dickens ~
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.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
~By Barbara Bush ~
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
~By Sallust ~
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
~By George Santayana ~
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
~By Anais Nin ~
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~By David Elkind ~
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
~By David Schwimmer ~
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
Opposition is true friendship.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
~By Black Kettle ~
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 ~
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
~By Charles Eastman ~
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.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Friendship is Love without his wings!
~By Lord Byron ~
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
~By Socrates ~
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
~By Carmen Sylva ~
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.
~By Jena Malone ~
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~By Albert Camus ~
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.
~By Li Peng ~
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 ~
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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 ~
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 ~
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
~By Petrarch ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Richard Burton ~
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~By Ann Landers ~
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
~By Barack Obama ~
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
~By Aristotle ~
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
~By Chanakya ~
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
~By Francis Quarles ~
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.
~By Brooks Adams ~
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.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
~By Lucan ~
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
~By Stendhal ~
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
~By Thomas Moore ~
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
~By Malcolm Arnold ~
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.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
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 ~
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
~By Paul Getty ~
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
~By June Jordan ~
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
~By Anna Freud ~
All lasting business is built on friendship.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
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.
~By Joseph Addison ~
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
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 ~
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
~By Edward Young ~
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.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
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