friendship

"What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship."

"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

"I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!"

"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."

"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."

"I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back."

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

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

"The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."

"Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs."

"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."