The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
Emil Zatopek

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley