Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson
Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. – William Glasser
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. – Francis Bacon
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! – Marie de France
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. – Thomas Fuller
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. – Madeleine Albright
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
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 feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. – Woodrow Wilson
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams
The friendship that can cease has never been real. – St. Jerome
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. – Jane Austen
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. – Thomas Aquinas
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right. – Ernie Banks
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt
