Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. Lord Byron Love Friendship
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville Truth Friendship
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte Friendship
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. James Joyce
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. Francois De La Rochefoucauld Love Friendship
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. William Shakespeare Friendship Affairs
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde Woman Friendship
Nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. Marcus Tullius Cicero Friendship Nature
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? Emily Bronte Friendship
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Children Friendship
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil Friendship Kindness
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe Heart
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. Bruce Lee Beginning