I Have Nothing But Contempt For The Kind Of Governor Who Is Afraid, For Whatever Reason, To Follow The Course That He Knows Is Best For The State And As For The Man Who Sets Private Friendship Above The Public Welfare - I Have No Use For Him Either.
~ Sophocles

True Friendship Is Seen Through The Heart Not Through The Eyes.
~ Unknown

Do Not Be Content With Showing Friendship In Words Alone, Let Your Heart Burn With Loving Kindness For All Who May Cross Your Path.
~ Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

Wishing To Be Friends Is Quick Work, But Friendship Is Slow-ripening Fruit.
~ Aristotle

All Love That Has Not Friendship For Its Base, Is Like A Mansion Built Upon Sand.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

Love Is Blind Friendship Closes Its Eyes.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Human Beings Are Born Into This Little Span Of Life Of Which The Best Thing Is Its Friendship And Intimacies, And Soon Their Places Will Know Them No More, And Yet They Leave Their Friendships And Intimacies With No Cultivation, To Grow As They Will By The Roadside, Expecting Them To Keep By Force Of Inertia.
~ William James

The Main Things Which Seem To Me Important On Their Own Account, And Not Merely As Means To Other Things, Are Knowledge, Art, Instinctive Happiness, And Relations Of Friendship Or Affection.
~ Bertrand Russell

A Friendship Can Weather Most Things And Thrive In Thin Soil But It Needs A Little Mulch Of Letters And Phone Calls And Small, Silly Presents Every So Often - Just To Save It From Drying Out Completely.
~ Pam Brown

The Friendship That Can Cease Has Never Been Real.
~ Saint Jerome, Lette

May The Hinges Of Our Friendship Never Grow Rusty.
~ Irish Prove

Women Can Form A Friendship With A Man Very Well But To Preserve It--to That End A Slight Physical Antipathy Must Probably Help.
~ George Jean Nathan