friendship

"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."

"I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there."

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love."

"I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating."

"The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true."

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

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."

"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."

"I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life."

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."

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

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

"The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires."