Quotes About Connection

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

All lasting business is built on friendship.