“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we’d talk on the phone, and if I wasn’t doing anything, I’d fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house – on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.”
— Frankie Valli
“Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.”
— Ernie Banks
“Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.”
— Henri Nouwen
“Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.”
— Emil Zatopek
“Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.”
— H. Jackson Brown
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
— Theophile Gautier
“So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.”
— John Tyler
“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Every friendship is different because everyone’s personality is different.”
— Nargis Fakhri
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
— Mortimer Adler
“Taft was Roosevelt’s handpicked successor. I didn’t know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early ’30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.”
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
— Richard Burton
“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.”
— Robert E. Lee
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
— Maria Shriver
“Female friendship… I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.”
— Betty Gilpin
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.”
— Major Taylor
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”
— Taylor Swift
“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.”
— Mencius
“How delightful to find a friend in everyone.”
— Joseph Brodsky
“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.”
— Charles de Lint
“To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it’s a thrill to start a friendship even up.”
— Christopher Knight
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
— George Washington
“A traitor is a betrayer – one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.”
— Lysander Spooner
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
— Plautus