Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal

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

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Gilbert Parker

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Thomas More

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

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Sting

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
Eamon de Valera

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

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
Marilyn Hacker

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

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Austin O'Malley