Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Friendship is the bread of the heart.
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.
You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.