“Your training partners are key to your success, and friendships based on your runs together are strong.”

“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”

“The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship”

“We have to overlook the friendship part of it. With our size, we just have to play basketball.”

“We love The Villages. We love the atmosphere and the friendships we have made with other people.”

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

“We're all close off the floor. I'll miss the friendships we formed through basketball.”

Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.