Friendship Quotes

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.