True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. – St. Jerome
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. – Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. – Aristotle
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. – Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is essentially a partnership. – Aristotle
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. – Lord Byron
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Saint Basil
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. – Richard Burton
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. – Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. – Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. – Elbert Hubbard
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. – Elbert Hubbard
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. – Edgar Allan Poe
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. – Henry Ward Beecher
