friendship

"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship."

"The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship."

"But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right."

"I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life."

"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

"Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive."

"Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship."

"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty."

"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"He who hath many friends hath none."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

"When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'"

"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

"I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody."

"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."

"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."