The perfect friendship of two men is the deepest and highest sentiment of which the finite mind is capable; women miss the best in life.
- Gertrude Atherton
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck
The worst solitude is to have no true friendships.
- Francis Bacon
There are good ships, and there are bad ships, but the best ships are friendships.
- Unknown
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those between people who love the same books.
- Irving Stone
There are very few honest friends-the demand is not particularly great.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
- William Penn
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is a Spanish proverb, which says very justly, Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.
- Earl of Chesterfield
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
- Bacon
There's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
- Hilaire Belloc
They seem to take the sun from the heavens who take friendship from life, for we receive from the immortal gods no better or more delightful boon.
- Cicero
Time, which strengthens Friendship, weakens Love.
- La Bruyere
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
- Proverb: Chinese
To be capable of steady friendship and lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
- Sallust
To friendship every burden's light.
- John Gay
To keep up and improve Friendship, thou must be willing to receive a Kindness, as well as to do one.
- Thomas Fuller
To lose an old friend is as the loss of a bead from life's rosary; or to drop a jewel into the depths of a turbulent sea.
- Douglas Meador
