The Education of Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Fiendship needs a certain parellelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Emma
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Essays „Of Followers and Friends"
There is little firendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour
Love comes from blindness,
Fiendship from knowledge.
„L'Amitié est l'amour sans ailes"
Friendship is Love without his wings!
„Inscription on Tomb of Lady Mary Wentworth"
Good to the poor, to kindred dear,
To servants kind, to friendship clear,
To nothing but herself severe.
Lacon
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Absalom and Achitophel
In friendship false, implacable in hate:
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Dione
A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judged a partner in the trade.
The Good-Natured Man
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays
The pleasing game of interchaging praise.
Boswell - Life
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances thorough life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Boswell - Life
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Maxims
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
French
L'amour est aveugle; l'amitié ferme les yeux
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.
Catiline
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
As You Like It
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
Much Ado About Nothing
Friendship is constant in all other things
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude - roots that can be pulled up.
Meher Baba
Friendships are precious
Hugging friendships are very precious
On-going hugging friendships are the most
precious all.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.