Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

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

friendship is love made bearable.

Life is nothing without friendship.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

I can understand companionship.

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We're like family.

Friendship is a personal issue, and it should remain that way.

Chris Martin is my best friend.

I adore Angie and we are very close.

It's good to have someone on the tour so close to you - I mean, like, my sister. There is no one closer to me on the tour, so I don't need any other friends than her. We always talk about everything; not only about tennis, but about all the other stuff around tennis.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.