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.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I’m cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

All you need is love.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.