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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
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 ~
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
~By Buddha ~
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 ~
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 ~
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
~By William Glasser ~
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
~By David Storey ~
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
~By Robert Lynd ~
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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.
~By Georg Brandes ~
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 ~
I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
~By Brian McBride ~
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 ~
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~By David Elkind ~
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 ~
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
~By Warren G. Harding ~
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
~By Lord Byron ~
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
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 ~
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~By Robert Blair ~
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
~By Socrates ~
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
~By Stendhal ~
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.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
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 ~
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
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 ~
Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~By Jane Austen ~
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
~By June Jordan ~
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~By Mencius ~
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 ~
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
~By John Burns ~
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.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
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 ~
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
~By Adriana Lima ~
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
~By Ernie Banks ~
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
~By Theophile Gautier ~
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
All lasting business is built on friendship.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
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 ~
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 ~
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
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 ~
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
~By Enrique Iglesias ~
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 ~
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 ~
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
~By Orson Welles ~
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 ~
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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 ~
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
~By Randolph Bourne ~
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
~By Black Kettle ~
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 ~
I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
~By Jane Harrison ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Alban Berg ~
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
~By John D. MacDonald ~
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