Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?
For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude â roots that can be pulled up.
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
Friendship needs no wordsâit is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'