There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
– Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
– Francis Bacon
Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
– Deng Ming-Dao
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
– May Sarton
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
– William Blake
Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.
– Nicholson
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
– Charles Lamb
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
– William Hazlitt
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
– Nigerian Proverb
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
– Samuel Johnson
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
– Sallust
To reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of friendship. Who is it that does not sometimes merit a check, and yet how few will endure one? Yet wherein can a friend more unfold his love than in preventing dangers before their birth, or in bringing a man to safety who is travelling on the road to ruin? I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver. When thou chidest thy wandering friend do it secretly, in season, in love, not in the ear of a popular convention, for oftentimes the presence of a multitude makes a man take up an unjust defence, rather than fall into a just shame.
– Feltham
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
– Henry David Thoreau
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
– Dave Tyson Gentry
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
– George Washington
True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.
– Unknown
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
– Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
– C. C. Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True friendship is never serene.
– Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it 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 Addison
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
– Dean Koontz
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
– Golda Meir
