Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
Enrique Iglesias

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Edgar Watson Howe

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Hector Hugh Munro

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
Eric Heiden

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Zhang Ziyi

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
Georg Brandes

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Edgar Watson Howe

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young