No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert SoutheyIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de MontaigneTwo persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de La BruyèreLoyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Ernie BanksMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis StevensonA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim MorrisonTrue happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph AddisonIt is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles KingsleyYou can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. PeterI define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
Harbhajan SinghTrue friends stab you in the front.
Oscar WildeFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranYou win the victory when you yield to friends.
SophoclesNever explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert HubbardLove demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean NathanFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar GraciánThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David ThoreauBe courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George WashingtonFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord ByronIt is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
ConfuciusFriendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert HubbardIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel JohnsonThe sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
GiottoThe strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Simon SinekRead as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George HerbertTrue friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar GraciánNeatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Johann Kaspar LavaterA youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
ConfuciusValue your friendship. Value your relationships.
Barbara BushLife has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EuripidesFriendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag HammarskjöldFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas AquinasForgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
George ForemanFriendship is Love without his wings!
Lord ByronSome people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia WoolfFriendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireThe differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao ZedongThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward BeecherA man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David ThoreauOne's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George SantayanaA passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. BrodieAll love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox