Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.