Friends feel each others' joys and sorrows as their own.
- Unknown
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
- Baltasar Gracian
Friendship adds a brighter radiance to prosperity and lightens the burden of adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- Cicero
Friendship can smooth the front of rude despair.
- Richard Cambridge
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
- Lord Halifax
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
- Dumas the Younger
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
- Joseph Addison
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship, not for a herd.
- Montaigne
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.
- Goldsmith
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness and understanding.
- Unknown
Friendship is a plant which one must water often.
- Proverb: German
Friendship is a prodigal, but love is a miser.
- Rousseau
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
- S. T. Coleridge
Friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless ingrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.
- Lord Chesterfield
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
- William Penn
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
- Augustine Birrell
Friendship is blessed, not so much for the friends it makes for us, which has an element of gain, but the friend it makes of us, which has the element of giving.
- Henry S. Haskins
Friendship is but a name.
- Ovid
