“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
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“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
“Came but for friendship, and took away love.”
“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?”
“From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.”
“I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.”
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.”
“All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.”
“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.”
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”
“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.”
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.”
“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.”
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
“All lasting business is built on friendship.”
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”