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I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

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

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

It's a drought in your brain.