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.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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.
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.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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.
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.
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.
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.
To build a friendship takes so much time and so many years. To ruin it, just seconds.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
