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

2. Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

3. Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. - Anton Chekhov 

4. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. - Henry Adams 

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

6. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. - Jonathan Edwards 

7. I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life! - Jessye Norman 

8. I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. - Jerry Lewis

 9. Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. - Charles Peguy 

10. The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff. - Jared Kushner 

11. Maintenance of good relations with the neighbor's, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life. - Sheikh Hasina 

12. A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. - Confucius 

13. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. - Henry David Thoreau 

14. Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

15. Friendship is essentially a partnership. - Aristotle 

16. 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. - Aristotle 

17. Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt 

18. We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. - Donald Trump 

19. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. - Marilyn Monroe 

20. The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. - Barack Obama 

21. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. - Thomas Jefferson 

22. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. - Thomas Jefferson 

23. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? - Thomas Jefferson 

24. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. - Voltaire 

25. You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country. - Joe Biden 

26. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. - C. S. Lewis 

27. I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely. - Alexander Graham Bell 

28. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. - Edgar Allan Poe 

29. Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. - Albert Camus 

30. One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. - H. L. Mencken 

31. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee 

32. 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. - John Wooden 

33. Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. - John Wooden 

34. Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship? - Dalai Lama 

35. My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential. - Dalai Lama

36. When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin. - Lou Holtz 

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

38. 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. - Michelle Obama 

39. 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. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

40. 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. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

41. Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

42. Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell 

43. I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. - Pietro Aretino 

44. True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. - St. Jerome 

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

46. Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. - Charles Dickens 

47. Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. - Thomas Aquinas 

48. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. - Francis Bacon 

49. Opposition is true friendship. - William Blake 

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

51. It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows. - Charles R. Swindoll 

52. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. - Samuel Johnson 

53. Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. - Samuel Johnson 

54. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. - Samuel Johnson 

55. Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron 

56. Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. - Lord Byron 

57. If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury 

58. I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. - Alice Walker 

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

60. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen 

61. General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. - Jane Austen 

62. Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. - Henri Nouwen 

63. 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. - Elbert Hubbard 

64. Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. - Elbert Hubbard

65. Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

66. Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen. - Sam Houston 

67. For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. - Saint Teresa of Avila 

68. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. - Michel de Montaigne 

69. Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

70. The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. - Mao Zedong 

71. We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. - Arthur Ashe 

72. Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

73. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana 

74. Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

75. Value your friendship. Value your relationships. - Barbara Bush 

76. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. - Orson Welles 

77. Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. - George Herbert 

78. Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. - Henry Ward Beecher 

79. There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. - Henry Ward Beecher 

80. 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. - Henry Ward Beecher 

81. A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. - Simon Sinek 

82. The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when. - Simon Sinek