Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. – Samuel Richardson
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. – Maria Shriver
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures. – Seneca
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Plautus
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. – James Whistler
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker. – Jean de la Bruyere
Love and friendship exclude each other. – Jean de la Bruyere
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. – J. Donald Walters
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. – George Herbert
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner
Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? – Emily Bronte
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. – Enrique Iglesias
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. – Charles Peguy
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. – Pietro Aretino
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. – Petrarch
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. – Mao Zedong
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. – Mortimer Adler
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler
