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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

True friends stab you in the front.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.