The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest read more

The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can read more

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value read more

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you read more

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. •Muhammad Ali Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. •Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. •Anonymous My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. •Anonymous Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.