My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. Anne Lamott on friendship
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon on friendship
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France on friendship
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. Thomas Fuller on friendship
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. Madeleine Albright on friendship
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt on friendship
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison on friendship
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. Samuel Johnson on friendship
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt on friendship
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen on friendship
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun on friendship
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson on friendship
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. Mason Cooley on friendship
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Adams on friendship
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Simone Weil on friendship
The friendship that can cease has never been real. St. Jerome on friendship
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb on friendship
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. Sallust on friendship
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. Jane Austen on friendship
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas on friendship