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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Anna Freud

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
Jonathan Edwards

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
Pope Benedict XVI

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert