Love and Friendship Quotes

Love and friendship quotes and links to other friendship quotes.

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." - William Hazlitt

"A good marriage, if there be such, rejects the company and conditions of love. It tries to reproduce those of friendship. It is a sweet association in life, full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations." - Michel de Montaigne

"Friendship always benefits, love sometimes injures." - Seneca

"He who is a friend must love; but he who loves is not always a friend. Thus friendship is always advantageous, while love is sometimes injurious." - Seneca

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." - Oliver Wendell Holmes 

"A person can choose his friends and select a wife, but he has only one mother... The trouble with many of us is that we don't appreciate our mothers." - Max Shulman

"It seems a pity that the good old phrase 'living in sin' is likely to be dropped by the C of E. So many friends, happily living in sin, will feel very ordinary and humdrum when they become merely partners; or, as the Americans say, “an item.” Living in sin has always sounded daring and exotic." - Sir Alec Guiness

"To that dear home beyond the sea, my Kathleen shall again return; and when thy old friends welcome thee, thy loving heart will cease to yearn." - Thomas P. Westendorf. “I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen.” A husband promises to take his wife back to their native 
Ireland.

"Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love—friends, counselors—a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;—this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still." - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 104.