- "Friends are born, not made."
-- Henry Adams - "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 - "Choose your friends like your books, few but choice."
-- American Proverb - "There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."
-- Anonymous - "There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet."
-- Anonymous - "Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him."
-- Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10 - "My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
-- Aristotle - "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
-- Aristotle - "What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
-- Aristotle - "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
-- Aristotle - "This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
-- Francis Bacon - "Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
-- John Boyle O'Reilly - " False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
-- Christian Nevell Bovee - "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
-- Charlotte Bronte - "Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence."
-- Pam Brown - "When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
-- Anatole Broyard - "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell - "Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
-- James Francis Byrnes - "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
-- Albert Camus - "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 - "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 - "Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
-- Mary Catherwood - "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
-- Charles Caleb Colton - "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never."
-- Charles Caleb Colton - "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 - "You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour."
-- Chinese Proverb - "Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero - "The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. "
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero - "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
-- John Churton Collins - "Have no friends not equal to yourself."
-- Confucius - "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings - "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
-- Ed Cunningham - "It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter."
-- Marlene Dietrich - "Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
-- Jean de La Fontaine - "Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."
-- Madame de Tencin - "My friends are my estate."
-- Emily Dickinson - "There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
-- Bejamin Disraeli - "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 - "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 - "No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
-- George Eliot - "A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
-- 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 - "In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty."
-- English Proverb - "Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."
-- Euripedes - "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 - "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 - "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
-- Henry Ford - "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
-- E. M. Forster - "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
-- Thomas Fuller - "Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."
-- Thomas Fuller - "Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
-- Kahil Gibran - " The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
-- Ulysses S. Grant - "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
-- Edward Everett Hale - "One who looks for a friend without faults will have none."
-- Hasidic Saying
- "There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."
-- Katherine Hathaway - "The best mirror is an old friend."
-- George Herbert - "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 Jr. Holmes - "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard - "Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
-- Elbert Hubbard - "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
-- Lee Iacocca - "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
-- Thomas Jefferson - "I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
-- Thomas Jefferson - "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
-- Thomas Jefferson - "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 - "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
-- Thomas Jones - "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
-- Doug Larson - "I get by with a little help from my friends."
-- John Lennon - "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) - "The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
-- Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865)
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