Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream when I lock into someone or something you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship that's a deal that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand that's for life.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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.