friendship

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

"I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States."

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

"My friends are my estate."

"Hello, Harry"said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,"said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you."

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."

"I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend."

"Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain."

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

"I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

"Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel."

"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

"Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it."