No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.
– Steve Tesich
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.
– Robert Southey
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
– Francois Mauriac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
– Honore' de Balzac
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
– Epicurus
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
– Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
– Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
– Austin O'Malley
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
– Christine Leefeldt
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
– Dean Koontz
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
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.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
– George T. Hewitt
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
– William Blake
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
– Marcel Proust
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
– Sylvia Bremer
The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
– Bharavi
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
– Saint Jerome
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
– Hubert Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
– Joseph Addison
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
