“The substantial difference between me and a friendship, I believe in true friendship.”

“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

“Does absolute reliance carry with it a complete exchange of confidences? I believe that true friendship cannot exist otherwise.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

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

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

“Opposition is true Friendship.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

“The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“An honest answer is the beginning of true friendship.”

Dr. Manuel

“In between career and family, friendship disappeared.”

Lucky Gupta (1998) Internet celebrity