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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them, then in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

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 greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
Francis Bacon

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
Euripedes

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

A friend in need is a good reason to screen your phone calls.
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb

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

Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
William Shakespeare

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran


A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller


A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
Kayla

Unknown
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Danish proverb
A road to a friend's house is never long.

Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.
Unkown

To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too.
Unknown

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-bye. .
Marie Louise De La Ramee

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe

Katherine Mansfield
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it.

Theocritus
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a present you give yourself.

George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

John Churton Collins
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

William Blake
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy — for friendship's sake.

Unknown
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Robert E. Lee
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

James F. Byrnes
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Unknown
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,
And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,
For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,

Randolph S. Bourne
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Mencius
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Unknown
Friends are the siblings, God never gave us.

Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

David Tyson Gentry
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Elbert Hubbard
Never Explain — your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe
you anyway.