“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.”
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.”
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”
“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”
“Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.”
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
“Opposition is true friendship.”
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”