Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Opposition is true friendship.

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

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.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.