Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
James Whistler

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
Marcelene Cox

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
Christopher Knight

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
Robert Blair

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
Richard Lugar

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G. Harding

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
Dan Fouts

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.
Tony Garza

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
Jane Harrison

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Lucan

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Seneca