Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel

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

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

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

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle Obama

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry B. Adams

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Sallust

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
Ernie Banks

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard