A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Woman, Friendship
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler – Friendship
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca – Friendship, Advice
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Seneca – Friendship abd understanding
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away – but not that of having had one.
Seneca – Friendship, Comfort
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
Seneca – Friendship
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Chamfort – Friendship
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
Truman Capote – Friendship
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot – Friendship
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot – Friendship, Newness
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot – Friendship, feeling safe
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot – A friend is one
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Voltaire – Friendship
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau – Friendship, Distance
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies–neighbors are kind enough for that–but to do the like office to our spirits.
