Simone Weil To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Edward Young Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Scarecrow and Mrs. King Francine: Ooh, Amanda, dear, is that why you're busy tonight? Very busy, apparently, hmm?
Lee: Amanda, do you know what that is?
'Amanda: Yes, it's a, um, it's a friendship ring.
Lee: No, it's a Concubine ring.
Amanda: No, it isn't, it's a friendship ring.
Lee: It's a Concubine ring, there's a whole collection of them in the Topkapi Museum, I know that for a fact.
Amanda: Yes, I know that, I know that. I know that. It's a friendship ring. It was given to me by a friend, and therefore it is... simply... a friendship ring.
Francine: Okay. Sure. Friendship.

The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carefully knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass), or who had no glass at all, because they were at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Butler Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Elbert Hubbard Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Gertrude Stein Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.