Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
~ Herman Melville
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
~ Charles Kingsley
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
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.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
~ John Woo
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
~ Marilyn Manson
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
~ Mason Cooley
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~ Voltaire
'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.
~ Luanne Rice
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
~ John Wooden
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
~ Alana Stewart
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
~ Martin Freeman
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
~ Samuel Richardson
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
~ Jane Harrison
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
~ Pope Benedict Xvi
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
~ Dalai Lama
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
~ Michelle Obama
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
~ Richard Attias
A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
~ Jimmy Chin
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
~ John Cusack
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.
~ Li Peng
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
~ George Foreman
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
~ Marie De France
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
~ Adam Sandler
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~ C. S. Lewis
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
~ Socrates
