I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

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.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.

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.

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Friends are born, not made.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.

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.