It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. – Theophile Gautier
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. – Stendhal
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. – William Hazlitt
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. – George Santayana
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. – William Hazlitt
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 G. Bulwer-Lytton
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. – Adam Sandler
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. – Saint Teresa of Avila
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. – James Joyce
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. – Gilbert Parker
Value your friendship. Value your relationships. – Barbara Bush
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. – Charles Caleb Colton
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different. – Emma Bunton
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. – Gertrude Stein
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
