Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.