Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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