Friendship like love is destroyed by long absence though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Even in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Friendship is like money easier made than kept.

Opposition is true friendship.

In friendship as well as love ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.

People come in and out of our lives and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Loyalty and friendship which is to me the same created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream when I lock into someone or something you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship that's a deal that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand that's for life.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

What sweetness is left in life if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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

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.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.