We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.

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.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

He who hath many friends hath none.

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

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.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.

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.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.