However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
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.