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 ~
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
~By Herman Melville ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
~By Seneca ~
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.
~By Larry Flynt ~
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
~By Charles Eastman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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 ~
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
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 ~
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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.
~By Cornelia Otis Skinner ~
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~By Mencius ~
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
~By Francis Quarles ~
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
~By John D. MacDonald ~
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
~By James Whistler ~
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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 ~
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 ~
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
~By Westbrook Pegler ~
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
~By Barbara Bush ~
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.
~By Lincoln Chafee ~
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
~By William Wycherley ~
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
~By Simone Weil ~
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
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 ~
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
~By St. Jerome ~
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
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 ~
Love is a friendship set to music.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.
~By Dave Obey ~
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
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 ~
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
~By Brian McBride ~
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 biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
~By Jane Austen ~
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
~By Fay Wray ~
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 ~
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.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
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 is Love without his wings!
~By Lord Byron ~
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
~By Joseph Parry ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
~By Robert Southey ~
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 ~
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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 ~
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
~By Jane Harrison ~
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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.
~By John Mayall ~
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
~By Francis Marion Crawford ~
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
~By Thomas Moore ~
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
~By Enrique Iglesias ~
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
~By John Woo ~
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~By Robert Blair ~
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
~By John Burns ~
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~By H. G. Wells ~
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