Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Proverb
I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
M. C. Escher
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
Saint Teresa Of Avila
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence Sterne
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasgow
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
Eskimo Proverb
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
Randy K. Milholland
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
Cyril Connolly
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
Randy K. Milholland
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Randy K. Milholland
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad.
German Proverb
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
Colleen Wainwright
You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar!
T.s. Eliot
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
There are no friends in wartime.
Frank Burns
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Bernard Meltzer
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Phillip Brooks
If I were to marry again tomorrow, I wouldtn't give up one friend. I'd take them all with me as a sort of dowry and tell my new husband that he was getting a rich wife.
Merle Shain
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman's name and claim to love her.
Real Live Preacher
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William Rotsler
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
Simone de Beauvoir
Everybody need a partner to stand right by their sideNot only down for the good timesBut also down through the bad times.
Will Smith
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
Tom Bodett
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.
Hebrew Proverb
No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
William Saroyan
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
George Crabbe
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
William Somerset Maugham
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.
Wilfred A. Peterson
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
Austin O'Malley
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
John Tyler
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Aphra Behn
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Tse tung
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
William Somerset Maugham
What is Friendship when complete?'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From the tongue, the heart, the hand; 'Tis to mortgage house and land; For a friend be sold a slave; 'Tis to die upon a grave, If a friend therein do lie.
Anne Finch
A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.
Louis Sabin
A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph Bourne
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.
African American Proverb
From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.
Richard Hooker
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
James Whistler
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll
It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Friendship is the gift that goes on giving and is a gift to both the person given to and to the giver as well. But to really make it work it isn't enough to give to another person, you have also to let them give to you.
Merle Shain
Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters.
Dave Matthews Band
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
Austin O'Malley
There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
Real Live Preacher
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
St. Thomas Aquinas
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.
Gregory Nunn
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. Macdonald
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
One man with 100 loyal friends is a lot stronger than one man with 1000 dead enemies, but only the former knows it, and only the latter cares.
Gregory Wallace Campbell
Friends are made only to be broken....it seems.
Jessica Bascom
Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward.
Jason Zebehazy
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
H. G. Bohn
I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
Leonardo Dicaprio
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Rod Mckuen
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles M. De Talleyrand
Hey, Dennis, this is Mike! Kick me, please! I'll settle for the price of a set of golf clubs.
Mike Royko
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb
To find a friend, one must close one eye; to keep him, two.
George Norman Douglas
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
David Gayson
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Brooks Adams
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
John Burroughs
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
William Blake
People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
Daisaku Ikeda
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious and gracious Friend expressing his mind to us by his word, that we may know it.
Jonathan Edwards
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Sir Arthur Helps
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!
Sasha Azevedo
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
German Proverb
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
Thomas Moore
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
John Wooden
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Indian Proverb
It always kind of symbolized our friendship.
William Brennan
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We're playing for the P.G.A. tomorrow, so friendship is aside. But it'll be a good day.
Davis Love Iii
I miss his loyalty, his friendship. He would help anyone that he could, and I miss his computer skills.
Roy Hutcherson
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
Marcelene Cox
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Proverb
He has never misled me in business dealings or in our friendship.
Chris Bowers
(It would be) like a friendship and community room.
Gloria Shull
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
It is a tribute to her reign and the ongoing friendship between our two nations.
Howard Rubenstein
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
But I did feel a friendship with him.
Bobby Allison
They end up building a relationship with the patients, and it becomes more of a friendship and a companionship and then you find that they give a bit more.
Sarah Santana
It was just a friendship.
Mark Griffin
Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean De La Bruyere
I am foreseeing good friendship between the two countries in the near future.
Natwar Singh
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
St. Thomas Aquinas
It's very much about friendship, and that's what we wanted it to be, ... There didn't need to be another fashion doll.
Maxine Clark
We are proud of their friendship and success, and of having such distinguished fans.
Giacinto Facchetti
Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.
Jaipal Reddy
This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship.
Katharine Armstrong
He was such a fighter. Even though I wouldn't see him for months, it didn't really matter. It was a friendship that will last forever.
Tom Currence
Having someone close within the family structure and friendship structure that they can look up to can make a difference.
Rick Cohen
Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
Comte Debussy rabutin
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier
Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Although it didn't help our friendship, it helped my friend.
Natalie Franklin
Love develops through friendship.
Helen Araromi
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Teilhard De Chardin
Several tribal groups shared beautiful dances of friendship, which brought the crowds to their feet.
Robert Free Galvan
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
Though friendship is not quick to burn,It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
I think that we'll be ready for (Friendship). Especially coming off a loss like this.
Luke Poore
I think we enjoy the camaraderie as much as anything. It's just about getting out, getting exercise and enjoying the friendship.
Chuck Newman
The friendship is more important than the coaching, and we approach things in that aspect.
Mark Franke
Without your gesture, it would have been impossible. Without your friendship, it would have been impossible.
Tony Jacklin
The movie is about friendship and humor.
Laura Gremelsbacker
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