Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
— Martin Freeman
I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.
— Martha Nussbaum
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
— Marlo Thomas
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
— Marion Cotillard
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
— Marilyn Manson
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
— Mariella Frostrup
Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.
— Marie Antoinette
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
— Major Taylor
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
— Madeleine Albright
I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
— Lynn Davies
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
— Lou Holtz
Friendship is Love without his wings!
— Lord Byron
I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
— Marquis de Lafayette
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
— Marlene Dietrich
Friendship and money: oil and water.
— Mario Puzo
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
— Marilyn Hacker
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
— Maria Shriver
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
— Margaret Cavendish
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
— Marcelene Cox
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
— Mao Zedong
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
— Lysander Spooner
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
— Lynn Coady
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
— Lucan
Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.
— Lou Boudreau
I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.
— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
— Mark Valley
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
— Marilyn Monroe
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
— Marie de France
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
— Margaret Walker
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It is hard to name an area where hospitality, friendship, culture, ambition, and beauty are so highly regarded.
— Marcel Wanders
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
— Mae Whitman
Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.
— Lyoto Machida
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
— Lucy Larcom
'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.
— Luanne Rice
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
