Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat. , Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores. ]
Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
. . . a friend. . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office. " I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
A friend is a second self.
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
Whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose.
Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care