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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.