Expected Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances…

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

— Rowan Williams

Friendship means understanding, not argument. it means forgiveness, not forgetting. it means the memories last, even if contact is lost.

— Sokhom

Friendship means understandings, not arguments. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.

— Anonymous

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time,…

— Joe Abercrombie

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so…

— Ouida

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it…

— Ouida

Friendship means understandings, not arguments. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact

— Anonymous

Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.

— Anonymous

What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends…

— Henry David Thoreau