Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

She's like my best friend here. We have a really good friendship. We talk about everything. It's a really nice family. They've done a lot for me.

Marcin Niedzielski

I would offer them my friendship.

A.j. Lepore

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Francesco Petrarch

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This election is not about friendship but about who can do the best job of leading New York and bringing together its diverse people.

David N. Dinkins

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adler

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

True friendship is never serene.

Marie de Rabutin Chantal

It was weird at first. It's part of business and, unfortunately, that's how it is. Our friendship is always going to be there. I have a lot of friends who are not here any more.

Dat Nguyen

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Lord Byron

We really welcome an ongoing friendship and business association with Hoboken.

Tom Stumpf

He was excited about getting out on a baseball field. Out of friendship and of fellowship, we're here. ... We're here for each other. ... I love having him around.

Roy Silver

It represented friendship and a party.

Chick Corea

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore De Balzac

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

[The friendship: With a high school friend,] my alter ego, ... always daring to do what I was too inhibited to do, which is why I enjoyed her company.

Amy Wilson

The company's contributions are practically never made on the basis of friendship, party affiliation or anything like that. It's business.

Alan Marcus

Anyone can do yardages and more or less pull a club. It is friendship I need more than anything else when things aren't going your way. You need someone you can count on.

Paul Mcginley

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

William Glasser

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Anita Brookner

A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.

Turkish proverb

It's all intertwined. It's a friendship and business thing, and this should be about public service.

Mayor Bobby Ralph

TRUCE, n. Friendship.

Ambrose Bierce

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

He remains my best friend of course and he wants the best for me, so he doesn't talk to me about it. We have our friendship and coach-athlete relationship.

Alexandre Despatie

I was a friend with him and his wife, and we maintained our friendship after he left.

Scott Dover

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

Clearly they are enjoy a nice friendship together.

Wendy Day

We have a good friendship so it allows us to get in the gym together and get good practice in the off-season.

Eric Greene

Parents in China are very strict with their children. They say you should do this, you shouldn't do that. The relationships between American parents and their children are more like a friendship.

Zhang Jie

Had a distant and past friendship, but that was more than a year ago.

Eric Mason