Friendship

Love is friendship set on fire.

French proverbs

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot

To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.

Cicero

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.

G.K. Chesterton

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

Aeschylus

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'.

C.S Lewis

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin

A road to a friend's house is never long.

Danish proverbs

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

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

Katherine Mansfield

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

Elie Wiesel

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Eleanor Roosevelt