Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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.
— Octavia E. Butler
There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.
— Niki Lauda
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.
— Nargis Fakhri
Don't let this music industry or any industry come between friendship. Just stay focused on your goals.
— Mustard
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
— Mother Angelica
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.
— Mohanlal
I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.
— Miranda Cosgrove
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
— Michelle Obama
The first time I got into astrology was being in New York. I was like, 'Oh, this is a real thing here!' Now, I'll Google what your sign is and what my sign is to see the predictions of friendship, and I find that really cool. But that's the most I know.
— Michaela Coel
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
— Michael Dirda
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
— Mencius
There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one's a bit spiky and the other's daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.
— Mel Giedroyc
There would be no Mauro Ranallo in MMA, or maybe even period, to be truly honest with you... without Bas Rutten's friendship, mentorship, and just belief in my talents.
— Mauro Ranallo
Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.
— Martin McGuinness
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
— Oliver Goldsmith
What I love about 'Save Me Tonight' is that it came to be through friendship. It was a perfect scenario for friends to come together and create.
— Noah Centineo
Kuwait has been a strong partner to the United States, and the royal family has maintained an enduring and sincere friendship with my family for generations.
— Neil Bush
I still have a great friendship with my eldest son's mum. She's my mate. We have this wonderful son who's 6 ft. 3, gorgeous, and I'm his dad. I've not been a total failure.
— Naveen Andrews
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
— Namie Amuro
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
— Muhammad Ali
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
— Montesquieu
The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.
— Mohammed Morsi
I love the Dream Theater guys dearly and have a long history, friendship, and bond that runs incredibly deep with them - it's just that I think we are in serious need of a little break.
— Mike Portnoy
I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.
— Michelle Dean
My friendship with The Doobie Brothers never really changed. We're all still good friends, and I really admire those guys a lot.
— Michael McDonald
Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.
— Michael Cimino
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.
— Max von Sydow
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
— Mason Cooley
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.'
— Nir Eyal
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
— Najib Mikati
When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal.
— Mohit Chauhan
I've remained in touch with more than a dozen descendants of Gremlin Special survivors, victims, and rescuers. I treasured my friendship with Earl Walter Jr., the lead paratrooper who jumped into the valley to protect the survivors.
— Mitchell Zuckoff
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
— Michel de Montaigne
My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
— Michael Foreman
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
— Max Jacob
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
— Martin Seligman
