But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right. Ernie Banks on friendship
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt on friendship
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 on friendship
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 on friendship
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Stendhal on friendship
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. William Hazlitt on friendship
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. George Santayana on friendship
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. Edward Gibbon on friendship
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. Zhang Ziyi on friendship
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. William Hazlitt on friendship
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez on friendship
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox on friendship
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on friendship
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. Adam Sandler on friendship
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila on friendship
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? Dennis Prager on friendship
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. James Joyce on friendship
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. Tahar Ben Jelloun on friendship
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. Gilbert Parker on friendship