Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

Just having friends isn’t enough, however. Our friendships should be ones that are pleasing to God and edifying to us as well as our friends.

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.

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

“We both got to know each other first as friends. The singles dances provided an environment for friendship, which took the pressure off.”