What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? – Anais Nin
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. – Voltaire
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Wiesel
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. – Henry Ward Beecher
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. – Charles Caleb Colton
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. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. – Robert Louis Stevenson
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. – Michel de Montaigne
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine. – Charles Dickens
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. – Lisa See
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
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. – Anton Chekhov
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Opposition is true friendship. – William Blake
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler
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! – William Hazlitt
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. – Epicurus
