friendship

"Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt."

"My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential."

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style"

"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"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."

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven."

"I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda."

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"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."

"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship."

"If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes."

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."