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A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
- Joe Abercrombie

But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
- J R R Tolkien

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
- Aeschylus

It takes two people to make a friendship work
- Jodi Picoult

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- Louisa May Alcott

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
- Louisa May Alcott

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
- Ted Allen

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
- Aristotle

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
- Marcus Aurelius

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- Erykah Badu

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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
- Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.
- Wendell Berry

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
- Thomas More

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship,
I'll perform it to the last article.
--Othello, Act III, Scene iii
- William Shakespeare

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- Ray Bradbury

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
- Ray Bradbury

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
- William Boyd

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
- Elise Broach

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.
- Elise Broach

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
- Emma Bunton

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.
- Emily Giffin

I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
- Emily Giffin

This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere Have fun, honey.
- Deb Caletti

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship's more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.
- Truman Capote

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You'd think it would be less painful this way.
- Cat Clarke

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
- Nigel Dennis

I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything"
"It's called a friendship.
- Sarah Dessen

Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.
- Sarah Dessen

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
- Milan Kundera

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

I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend.
- James Frey

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
- Bruce Jay Friedman

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
- Marilyn Hacker

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
- Tom Stoppard

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
- J K Rowling

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
- Steve Jobs

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave.
- James Jones

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.
- Alexander Pope

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
- Christopher Knight

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
- John Knowles

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
- Bruce Lee

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
- Charles De Lint

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
- Alicia Machado

Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.
- Nancy Mairs

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
- Julianna Margulies

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
- Armistead Maupin

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
- Thomas Moore

The trouble with friends was that you couldn't get rid of them. There was no way to take back a friendship in the wake of betrayal or disappointment. The friendship, and everything that went with it, stayed. It just became unreliable, like an abandoned house; you still knew where all the rooms were, and which stairs creaked underfoot, but you had to check every floorboard for rot before trusting your weight to it.
- Chris Moriarty

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D Rockefeller

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever...
- David Nicholls

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
- Plautus

...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like a church, follow it like a medical regime, vanquish it like an obstacle, win it like a friendship, cosset it like a little child, create it like a new world without neglecting those mysteries whose explanation is to be found probably only in worlds other than our own and the presentiment of which is the thing that moves us most deeply in life and in art.
- Marcel Proust

A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.
- Matthew Reilly

In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal

But, I believe,I continue, I know what true love is-or what it should be. What should it be? Tristan asks , his voice is soft now. It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things.
- Lisa Ann Sandell

Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she's be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure or this that they could say anything.
- Marisa De Los Santos

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
- William Shenstone

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You independent women these days don't need to play by the old rules anymore. Embrace it. Chase your man. But be sensible.' (Daisy's Nanna, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 400)
- Danielle Weiler

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
- Randy West

This was the beginning. The end is easily foreseen; for, given a young man of Dick's temperament, longing
for companionship, and another young man of Charlie's makeup, with a legitimate business to bring the two
together, and only a friendship of the David and Jonathan order could result.
- Harold Bell Wright

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