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. Jerry Lewis on friendship
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine. Charles Dickens on friendship
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. Ernie Banks on friendship
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. Lisa See on friendship
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on friendship
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on friendship
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov on friendship
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on friendship
Opposition is true friendship. William Blake on friendship
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler on friendship
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt on friendship
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus on friendship
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. Samuel Johnson on friendship
Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor on friendship
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison on friendship
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. William Glasser on friendship
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. Samuel Johnson on friendship
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger. Michelle Obama on friendship
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey on friendship