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" Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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" Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "

George Washington

" A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. "

" Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. "

Dag Hammarskjold

" I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys. "

" Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance. "

" Your friend is your needs answered. "

" Friendship is a sheltering tree. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction. "

" Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy. "

Bidzina Ivanishvili

" I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general. "

" There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. "

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

" I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. "

" One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me. "

" One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship. "

" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "

" Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned. "

" Love demands infinitely less than friendship. "

George Jean Nathan

" From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is. "

" A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. "

" I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction. "

" This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss. "

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

" Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. "

Samuel Richardson

" I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together. "

" Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "

" A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships. "