Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

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.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.

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

What I cannot love I overlook. Is that real friendship?

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

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

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly those who dispute with one another at last agree.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other always using friendly and sincere words.

Friendship like credit is highest when it is not used.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude two for friendship three for society.

False friendship like the ivy decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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