The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
- Abraham Lincoln
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Sylvia Bremer
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
- C. C. Colton
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to-look the other way.
- Ugo Betti
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
- William Penn
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.
- Addison
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
- Cyril Connolly
The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you.
- David Augsburger
The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
- Jewish Saying
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered, like plants that bear their fruit and die.
- Samuel Johnson
The heart senses who is a friend and who is no friend.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elizabeth Foley
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- Samuel Johnson
The name of friend is common, but faith in friendship is rare.
- Phaedrus
