1. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship. - Hillary Clinton
2. However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
3. If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
4. What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
5. In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
6. There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. - Thomas Fuller
7. Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. - Montesquieu
8. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus
9. 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. - Ram Dass
10. Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. - Anne Lamott
11. My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. - Anne Lamott
12. I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. - Jennifer Aniston
13. Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far. - Marie Antoinette
14. 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
15. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - Jean de La Fontaine
16. Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. - Charles Caleb Colton
17. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton
18. During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. - J. Paul Getty
19. I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business. - Joan Rivers
20. I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. - Woodrow Wilson
21. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert H. Humphrey
22. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. - Simone Weil
23. 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
24. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? - Anais Nin
25. The arrogance that says analyzing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that. - Alain de Botton
26. The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives. - Alain de Botton
27. Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day. - Alain de Botton
28. We should have a good working friendship with the United States. - Justin Trudeau
29. Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
31. Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
32. 'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family. - Zendaya
33. Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. - Gertrude Stein
34. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison
35. True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison
36. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler
37. Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. - Pope Benedict XVI
38. 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
39. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. - William Hazlitt
40. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. - William Hazlitt
41. Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! - William Hazlitt
42. Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. - William Hazlitt
43. The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. - William Hazlitt
44. Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. - William Hazlitt
45. It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. - E. W. Howe
46. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. - E. W. Howe
47. 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
48. No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. - Madeleine Albright
49. I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that. - Tim Tebow
50. Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue. - Mencius
51. Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. - Mason Cooley
52. Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. - Truman Capote
53. Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. - Petrarch
54. Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte
55. Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker. - Jean de la Bruyere
56. Love and friendship exclude each other. - Jean de la Bruyere
57. I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies. - Martha Nussbaum
58. I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate. - Alanis Morissette
59. Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship. - Mother Angelica
60. When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence. - Mother Angelica
61. What I love about 'Save Me Tonight' is that it came to be through friendship. It was a perfect scenario for friends to come together and create. - Noah Centineo
62. She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
63. Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America. - Marquis de Lafayette
64. I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune. - Marquis de Lafayette
65. I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. - Regina Brett
66. Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. - Adam Sandler
67. I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet. - Neale Donald Walsch
68. As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless. - Neale Donald Walsch
69. If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte
70. Friendship has its illusions no less than love. - Stendhal
71. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? - Dennis Prager
72. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. - Seneca
73. November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude. - Deborah Sampson
74. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. - Ann Landers
75. I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship. - Jill Scott
76. Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego. - Yolanda Hadid
77. I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side. - Yolanda Hadid
78. The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
79. The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel. - Clayton M. Christensen
80. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. - Oliver Goldsmith
81. Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. - Oliver Goldsmith
82. I was in high school - and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools. - Brett Kavanaugh
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