Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Stendhal
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. William Hazlitt
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. George Santayana
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. Edward Gibbon
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. Zhang Ziyi
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. William Hazlitt
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. Adam Sandler
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Dennis Prager
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. James Joyce
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. Tahar Ben Jelloun
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. Gilbert Parker
Value your friendship. Value your relationships. Barbara Bush
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. Charles Caleb Colton
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless. Neale Donald Walsch