It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
— Zora Neale Hurston
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
— Zadie Smith
Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.
— Yolanda Hadid
I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don't know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.
— Winnie Holzman
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
— William Penn
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
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
Opposition is true friendship.
— William Blake
Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.
— Whitney Wolfe Herd
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
— Washington Irving
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
— Walt Whitman
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
— Voltaire
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
— Viggo Mortensen
It's kind of a weird thing when you've been at the top of a division you've been in your entire career to kind of take a backseat because of friendship.
— Urijah Faber
There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship - it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.
— Tzipi Livni
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
— Truman Capote
As far as 'Final Destination' and its creator, Jeffrey Reddick, are concerned, whenever Jeffrey calls, because of our friendship, I have to listen.
— Tony Todd
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
You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls.
— Yvonne Orji
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.
— Woodrow Wilson
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
— William Wycherley
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
— William Glasser
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel - and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that's in dating, friendship, or business.
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
— Warren Christopher
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
— Virginia Woolf
If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
— Victoria Justice
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
— Unknown
Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.
— Tyronn Lue
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
— Trey Anastasio
In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.
— Tony Garza
'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.
— Zendaya
I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.
I take friendship very seriously.
— Wole Soyinka
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
— William Shenstone
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.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
— William Butler Yeats
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
— Willa Cather
I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
— Walter Winchell
If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.
— W. Bruce Cameron
Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
— Vincent Nichols
On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
— Vicente Fox
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Sweat makes good friendship cement.
— Tyne Daly
When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'
— Trent Reznor
