“The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.”
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“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
“A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”
“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
“Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.”
“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.”
“Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.”
“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.”
“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”
“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!”
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
“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.”
“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”
“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.”
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.”
“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”