What is friendship for you?
Write about related topics too, like what level of friendship can exist between a man and a woman, what is not friendship even if it looks like, what level of online friendship is possible, etc...
How much trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding, empathy, and intimacy is needed to make a friendship what it is?

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
-- Mark Twain

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
-- Jorge Luis Borges

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"A Friend Is Someone Who Will Bail You out of Jail, but Your Best Friend Is the One Sitting next to you Saying 'That Was F***ing Awesome!' "

TRUCE, n. Friendship.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
-- Laurie Colwin

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
-- Ray Bradbury

A true friend stabs you in the front.
--Oscar Wilde

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb

But of course that's Ray Bradbury saying that. He would say such things. Of course, in his version of the world, the intellect is an unalloyed evil, a sinister machine.

I don't like Bradbury much, never enjoyed his books.

I'm wondering where this thread is coming from but to me a friend is someone who makes me smile when I don't feel like smiling and who smiles at me when they themselves don't have anything to smile about. We share so much even though we have little in common and we just fit together.

I miss my friends when they are away and they miss me.

Friends make life bearable and they are also someone to bounce things off before making an arse of yourself in public.

The online aspect of friendship makes no difference, a friend is a friend right to the end as Mr Mercury once said.

I have hundreds of acquaintances but only a one or two friends.

A friend is one who I enjoy being with and who enjoys being with me, that by our presence or even simple communication, it lightens the day just enough.

A friend is someone who you can share your troubles with and they'll be there to support you, and not judge.

A friend is someone who will not turn their back to you if it may somehow be profitable to them. They will stand by your side even at the expense of their own self.

A friend reaches out when everyone else is turning away.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

A friend will support you in the bad times and rejoice with you in the good times.

A friend will take you into her confidence and keep your secrets as well.

A friend will acknowledge when you are in the right and call you out when you are in the wrong.

A friend will be patient and caring when you are pissed, knowing when to comfort you and when to back the hell off, and she won't take offense at the latter.

A friend will never keep you waiting without asking your forgiveness and will be patient and forgiving when you are late yourself.

A friend will never make you pay for her help.

A friend will never ignore you to save her reputation.

A friend will never make you feel like you don't belong.




Or at least, that's what I've heard.

A friend is the brother or sister that your parents never got around to having.

That is an awesome quote. I'm going to steal it (of course, it's not yours, but it's going in with my favorite quotes). :)

A friend will help you move.
A really good friend will help you move a body.

-A Friend of Hooskers

Would jump in front of a bullet.

A friend is someone who listens, even when you repeat yourself.