Friendship is essentially a partnership. Aristotle
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Marilyn Monroe
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. Lord Byron
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. Saint Basil
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. Richard Burton
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Henry David Thoreau
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. Jennifer Aniston
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. Elbert Hubbard
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. Marcus Tullius Cicero
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus
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. Elbert Hubbard
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. John Wooden
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone de Beauvoir
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. Tim Allen
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. Edgar Allan Poe
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. David Storey