Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini on friendship
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Joseph Brodsky on friendship
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving on friendship
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. Euripides on friendship
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George Jean Nathan on friendship
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig on friendship
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville on friendship
All you need to do to be my friend is like me. Taylor Swift on friendship
Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams on friendship
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac on friendship
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on friendship
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana on friendship
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. Zora Neale Hurston on friendship
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. E. W. Howe on friendship
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. E. W. Howe on friendship
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Samuel Pepys on friendship
The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore on friendship
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Francis Quarles on friendship
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee on friendship