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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Friendship and money: oil and water.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.