 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. Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| 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. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. Author: Ernie Banks |
| 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. Author: Richard Burton |
| Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. Author: John Evelyn |
| Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas |
| The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine |
| 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. Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. Author: Anita Brookner |
| Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Author: Jane Austen |
| To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Author: Simone Weil |
| 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. Author: Joseph Addison |
| Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. Author: James F. Byrnes |
| The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Author: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. Author: Robert Lynd |
| The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Author: Eugene Kennedy |
| Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Author: Charles Alexander Eastman |
| Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. Author: Kenneth Branagh |
| Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| 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. Author: Pietro Aretino |
