Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
I'm a big man and I like big dogs. . . . The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.