Fiendship

-George Eliot
Perhaps the most delightful are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

-George Washington
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

-Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

-Cornelia Otis Skinner
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

-David Tyson Gentry
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

-Deng Ming-Dao
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

-Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

-Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

-Jane Austen
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

-Katherine Mansfield
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

-Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

-Henry Ward Beecher
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.

-Mark Twain
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

-May Sarton
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.

-Mohammed Hijazi
Woman reaches love through friendship; man reaches friendship through love.

-Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

-Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.

-St. Jerome
The friendship that can cease has never been real.