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" Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. "

Patrick O'Brian

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" Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. "

" Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. "

" The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. "

Eamon de Valera

" Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship. "

" But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. "

" Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him. "

" I rekindled a friendship I hadn't had in a long time, and I was reminded of all the parts of me that had left. I was like, 'Wow, I love to paint and to write and to be outside.' "

Lauren Jauregui

" 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. "

" If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. "

George MacDonald

" I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that. "

Poppy Delevingne

" Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? "

Thomas Jefferson

" I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. "

" To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. "

Cornelia Otis Skinner

" It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. "

" How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

" Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. "

" Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way. "

" Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. "

" Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. "

" The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. "

" When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship. "

" They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. "

Henry Walter Bates

" True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. "

" Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. "

Margaret Walker

" When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody. "

" Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. "