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Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed  whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time  which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
— Mariama Ba
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
— Edna Buchanan
Grief can take care of itself  but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
— Sheryl Condie
It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
— Marlene Dietrich
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement  much disputation  and yet more personal liking.
— George Eliot
Prosperity is not just scale  adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
— Plutarch
And we find at the end of a perfect day  The soul of a friend we've made.
— Carrie Jacobs Bond
Love is like the wild-rose briar  Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms  But which will bloom most constantly?
— Emily Bronte
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
— Spanish proverb
We call that person who has lost his father  an orphan  and a widower  that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend  by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.
— Joseph Roux
The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
— Amelia Barr
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family  but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
— Willa Cather
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble  and then not worth much after you get it.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Friendship is the bread of the heart.
— Mary Russell Mitford
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I feel the need of relations and friendship  of affection  of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling  as does any other intelligent man  a void and a deep need.
— Vincent van Gogh
Your wealth is where your friends are.
— Plautus
Today a man discovered gold and fame  Another flew the stormy seas  Another set an unarmed world aflame  One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend for I-today-I found a friend.
— Helen Barker Parker
Though Love be deeper  Friendship is more wide.
— Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
— D. H. Lawrence
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life  to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
— Anonymous
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
— Bob Lemon
There is no wilderness like a life without friends  friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes  it is a unique remedy against adversity  and it soothes the soul.
— Baltasar Gracian
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
— Saint Thomas Aquinas
A cheer  then  for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post  And like the lifeboat  proves a friend  When friends are wanted most.
— Eliza Cook
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
— Rupert Brooke
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures  and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— Saint Thomas Aquinas
No medicine is more valuable  none more efficacious  none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble  and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
— Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
My only sketch  profile  of heaven is a large blue sky  and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.
— Emily Dickinson
If I don't have friends  then I ain't nothing.
— Billie Holiday
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
— Carlos P. Romulo
One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
— William E. Holler
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
We take care of our health  we lay up money  we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient  but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no physician like a true friend.
— Anonymous
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
— Alexander Pope
The bird  a nest  the spider  a web  man  friendship.
— William Blake
True happiness ... 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
It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.
— Lady Henry Somerset
Today a man discovered gold and fame  Another flew the stormy seas  Another set an unarmed world aflame  One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.
— Helen Barker Parker
Good friends  good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
Man is a knot  a web  a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Friends are an aid to the young  to guard them from error  to the elderly  to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action  to those in the prime of life  to assist them to noble deeds.
— Aristotle
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows  the ease of our passions  the discharge of our oppression  the sanctuary of our calamities  the counselor of our doubts  the clarity of our minds  the emission of our thoughts  the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
— Jeremy Taylor
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy  much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
Each friend represents a world in us  a world possibly not born until they arrive  and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anais Nin
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef  love  like being enlivened with champagne.
— Samuel Johnson
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
— Gail Godwin
Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
— Francis Bacon
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
Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er  and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.
— Spencer M. Free
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
— Izaak Walton
Friends are the sunshine of life.
— John Hay
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges  and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
— Helen Keller
The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.
— Arthur H. Stainback
My life seems to have become suddenly hollow  and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.
— John Addington Symonds
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us  as the confidence of their help.
— Epicurus
Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough  For I am sure of you.
— Amelia Barr
Plant a seed of friendship  reap a bouquet of happiness.
— Lois L. Kaufman
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
— Duchess Prazlin
Some people go to priests  others to poetry  I to my friends.
— Virginia Woolf
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste  coveting one another's desserts  hiding shampoo  locking each other out of our rooms  inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant  loving  laughing  defending  and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
— Erma Bombeck
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
— Erma Bombeck
If ever two were one  then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife  then thee.
— Anne Bradstreet
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
— Edna Buchanan
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife  the way to stay close is to do things together and share.
— Barbara Bush
Jimmy and I were always partners.
— Rosalynn Carter
He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past  so we should be all right.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
Parents are friends that life gives us  friends are parents that the heart chooses.
— Comtesse Diane
[My father] was generous with his affection  given to great  awkward  engulfing hugs  and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs  all starched shirt  tobacco  Old Spice  and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
— Linda Ellerbee
Both within the family and without  our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
— Elizabeth Fishel
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over  rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks  the less is left over for the others.
— Elizabeth Fishel
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body  history and dreams.
— Elizabeth Fishel
Where there is lasting love  there is a family.
— Shere Hite
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?
— Alice Walker
Call it a clan  call it a network  call it a tribe  call it a family: Whatever you call it  whoever you are  you need one.
— Jane Howard
Old as she was  she still missed her daddy sometimes.
— Gloria Naylor
[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally  so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
— Anais Nin
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them  send their children wandering  drown them in floods and fires  and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.
— Marilynne Robinson
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
— Jill Ruckelshaus
Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
— Jane Taylor
All love that has not friendship for its base  Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One can find traces of every life in each life.
— Susan Griffin
Friendship is an art  and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
— Kathleen Norris
The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.
— Robert J. Havighurst
We flatter those we scarcely know  We please the fleeting guest  And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
— Randolph Bourne
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
— Joy Harjo
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation  to grow as they will by the roadside  expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
— William James
Friendships  like marriages  are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
— John D. MacDonald
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence  secretiveness  or sudden outburst.
— Eleanor H. Porter
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
— John Churton Collins
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness  thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others  they will live for you.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends  for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things  but above all  the power of getting out of one's self  and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
— Thomas Hughes
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
— Quintus Ennius
Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values  the other half is tolerance in one's own views.
— Daniel Frohman
A true friend unbosoms freely  advises justly  assists readily  adventures boldly  takes all patiently  defends courageously  and continues a friend unchangeably.
— William Penn
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it  we will receive it.
— Harry E. Humphreys
There is 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
Actions  not words  are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
— George Washington
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
— Sophocles
Any man will usually get from other men what he is expecting from them. If he is looking for friendship  he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference  it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight  he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.
— John Richelsen
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him  understood him  interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
— Don Marquis
He does good to himself who does good to his friend.
— Erasmus
A sense of duty is useful in work  but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked  not endured with patient resignation.
— Bertrand Russell
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
— Cicero
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute  don't accept  because you will lose one friend  on the other hand  if two strangers come with the same request  accept  because you will gain one friend.
— Saint Augustine
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air  and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
— William Penn
You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
— Lydia M. Child
Wear a smile and have friends  wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
— George Eliot
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you  and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
— Charles M. Schwab
Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it  and never hold it.
— Dagobert D. Runes
It is not the services we render them  but the services they render us  that attaches people to us.
— Labiche et Martin
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us  but for ours to amuse them.
— Evelyn Waugh
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend  as upon the chastity of a wife.
— Samuel Johnson
Give and take makes good friends.
— Scottish proverb
A quarrel between friends  when made up  adds a new tie to friendship  as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
— Saint Francis de Sales
No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.
— David Grayson
Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.
— Jean Baptiste LaCordaire
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy  provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
— William James
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it  he must serve it too.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop  there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is  at last  one which makes the heart run over.
— James Boswell
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
— Anonymous
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
— William Shakespeare
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase  in some respect  his fondness of himself.
— Samuel Johnson
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
— Sophocles
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women can form a friendship with a man very well  but to preserve it  a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.
— R. D. Hicks
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
— Eustace Budgell
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection  and not a fountain  to show them that we love them  not when we feel like it  but when they do.
— Nan Fairbrother
If you want to be listened to  you should put in time listening.
— Marge Piercy
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
— Louisa May Alcott
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty  esteem  cordiality  sympathy  affection  readiness to aid  to help  to stick  to fight for  if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
— B. C. Forbes
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
— Maya Angelou
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good  and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
— Arnold Glasow
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
— William Feather
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship requires great communication.
— Saint Francis de Sales
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
— Aristotle
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
— Anonymous
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
— Thucydides
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune  the very ventilation of the soul.
— Baltasar Gracian
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
— Chinese proverb
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The chain of friendship  however bright  does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
— Sir Walter Scott
Fond as we are of our loved ones  there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
— Ann Shaw
Friendship increases in visiting friends  but not in visiting them too often.
— Anonymous
Go oft to the house of thy friend  for weeds choke the unused path.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication  sympathy and service.
— George E. Woodberry
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
— John Muir
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
— Elizabeth Foley
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
— Scottish proverb
A hedge between keeps friendships green.
— Anonymous
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
— May Sarton
My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.
— Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
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 J. Peter
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
— Sophie Irene Loeb
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
— Anonymous
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
— Turkish proverb
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
— Publilius Syrus
Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little  we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Love your friend with his fault.
— Anonymous
It is well  when judging a friend  to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
— Arnold Bennett
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
— Jean de la Bruyere
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.
— Norman Douglas
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
— Ned Rorem
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
— Thomas Fuller
It is well there is no one without fault  for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
— William Hazlitt
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
— David Storey
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
— Johann von Goethe
The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
— Camillo Di Cavour
It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects  even of those whom we most love.
— Mark Rutherford
Friendship admits of difference of character  as love does that of sex.
— Joseph Roux
Between friends there is no need of justice.
— Aristotle
What I cannot love  I overlook.
— Anais Nin
Treat your fiends as you do your picture  and place them in their best light.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me  not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
— Samuel Butler
Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures  costs nothing  and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus  like mercy  is twice blessed.
— Erastus Wiman
Truth is a rough  honest  helter-skelter terrier  that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
— Ouida
Friendship cannot live with ceremony  nor without civility.
— Lord Halifax
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go  while you may enjoy the flowers  you may not eat them.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Friendship is honey  but don't eat it all.
— Moroccan proverb
Except in cases of necessity  which are rare  leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies  they are ready enough to tell him.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them  and important to our friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlin
There are worse words than cuss words  there are words that hurt.
— Tillie Olsen
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds  even if it is the salt of the earth.
— Rebecca West
Flattery makes friends  truth enemies.
— Spanish proverb
Before a secret is told  one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
— Susan Griffin
A cruel story runs on wheels  and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
— Ouida
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
— Doris Lessing
If we all told what we know of one another  there would not be four friends in the world
— Blaise Pascal
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter  but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid  because most people really like this contact  that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
— Liv Ullmann
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts  I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
— Anonymous
So often the truth is told with hate  and lies are told with love.
— Rita Mae Brown
Give me the avowed  the erect and manly foe  Bold I can meet  perhaps may turn the blow  But of all plagues  good Heaven  thy wrath can send  Save  oh save me from the candid friend!
— George Canning
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
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
— Chinese proverb
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
— Robert Lynd
There is not so good an understanding between any two  but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
— Henry David Thoreau
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day  which sheds its brightness on all around.
— John Lubbock
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.
— Marshall McLuhan
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires  and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
— Jean de la Fontaine
I always felt that the great high privilege  relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
— Katherine Mansfield
Nobody who is afraid of laughing  and heartily too  at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
— Julius Charles Hare
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
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.
— Francine Du Plessix Gray
Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
— Betty White
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it  that's the time to hold your tongue.
— Alice Duer Miller
Flatterers look like friends  as wolves like dogs.
— George Chapman
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
— Walter Savage Landor
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him  I may think aloud.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh  the comfort  the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person  having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words  but pouring them all out  just as they are  chaff and grain together  certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them  keep what is worth keeping  and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
— George Santayana
I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually  by recounting our grief  we can lighten each other's sorrow.
— The Kanteletar
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
— Antisthenes
Since we are mortal  friendships are best kept to a moderate level  rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
— Hippolytus
Forget your woes when you see your friend.
— Priscian
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
— Francis Bacon
Laugh  and the world laughs with you  weep and you weep alone.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When good cheer is lacking  our friends will be packing.
— Anonymous
We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
— Julia Seton
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense  and have her nonsense respected.
— Charles Lamb
There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends  but he joyeth the more  and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends  but he grieveth the less.
— Francis Bacon
I am treating you as my friend  asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
— Katherine Mansfield
I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.
— Jane Howard
No man can be happy without a friend  nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
— Thomas Fuller
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant  and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
— Cicero
The friend of 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 growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence  the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In prosperity our friends know us  in adversity we know our friends.
— John Churton Collins
0 summer friendship  whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity  With the least gust  drop off in the autumn of adversity.
— Philip Massinger
1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
— Euripides
In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired  whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.
— Demetrius
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
— Anne Stevenson
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo  but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
— Oprah Winfrey
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue  not a companion in vice.
— Cicero
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them  and a lucky hit  either in business or reputation  improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
— William Hazlitt
Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
— Cokie Roberts
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
— Cicero
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
— Ogden Nash
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble  prosperity is full of friends.
— Euripides
Instead of loving your enemies  treat your friends a little better.
— Edgar Watson Howe
One enemy is too many  a hundred friends too few.
— Anonymous
Friends come and go  enemies linger.
— Anonymous
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.
— Mark Twain
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
— Margaret Culkin Banning
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right  but when I am a little in the wrong.
— Sir Walter Scott
Nature has been for me  for as long as I remember  a source of solace  inspiration  adventure  and delight  a home  a teacher  a companion.
— Lorraine Anderson
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children  it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
— Vera Brittain
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble  never unhappy or ill  never make mistakes  and always count their change when it is handed to them.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random  write to one  dine with one  visit one  or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand  inspire  and give you the lift you may need at the time.
— George Matthew Adams
Many a person has held close  throughout their entire lives  two friends that always remained strange to one another  because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity  the other by difference.
— Emil Ludwig
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
— A. J. Cronin
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
— Robin Morgan
Scratch a lover  and find a foe.
— Dorothy Parker
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
— Mary Webb
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation  one glance  one hurt  and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.
— Gloria Naylor
Kind words can be short and easy to speak  but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa
The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people  evoked as it is by many qualities.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures  such a smile  if the artful but know it  is the greatest weapon a face can have.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
— Anais Nin
We need two kinds of acquaintances  one to complain to  while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
— Francis Marion Crawford
Every organism requires an environment of friends  partly to shield it from violent changes  and partly to supply it with its wants.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of  we have a special face for each friend.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.
— Robert E. Frederick
To those who know thee not  no words can paint! And those who know thee  know all words are faint!
— Hannah Moore
Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.
— Horace Walpole
As in the case of wines that improve with age  the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
— Cicero
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart  and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
— Benjamin Disraeli
When you are young and without success  you have only a few friends. Then  later on  when you are rich and famous  you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
— Pablo Picasso
Old friends  we say  are best  when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
— Gelett Burgess
Friends and wine should be old.
— Spanish proverb
Forsake not an old friend  for the new is not comparable to him  a new friend is as new wine.
— Bible
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
Ah  how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best mirror is an old friend.
— Anonymous
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because  of all the things granted us by wisdom  none is greater or better than friendship.
— Pietro Aretino
There is only one thing better than making a new friend  and that is keeping an old one.
— Elmer G. Letterman
The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.
— Julie Holz
To throw away an honest friend is  as it were  to throw your life away.
— Sophocles
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
— Nigerian proverb
None is so rich as to throw away a friend.
— Turkish proverb
Those friends thou hast  and their adoption tried  grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
— William Shakespeare
True friendship is like sound health  the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We die as often as we lose a friend.
— Publilius Syrus
Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.
— Florence H. Winterburn
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you  your own life  than turn away a good friend.
— Sophocles
Thine own friend  and thy father's friend  forsake not.
— Bible
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
— Wilson Mizner
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend  perhaps the friend  sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life  he will soon find himself left alone.
— Samuel Johnson
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones  or the pleasure of change  as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well  and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it  even if bad  to a classic.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To cement a new friendship  especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world  a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person  and cut across the accidents of place and time.
— George Santayana
A new friend is like new wine  when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
— Apocrypha
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
— S. Weir Mitchell
Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.
— Charles Jones
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
— Frank A. Vanderlip
Yes'm  old friends is always best  'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Many a friendship-long  loyal  and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
— Frederick W. Faber
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
— Austin O'Malley
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
— Ethel Barrymore
Accident counts for much in companionship  as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails  why should one condemn oneself to live day in  day out with people one does not like  and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?
— Ruth Benedict
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings  and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Have but few friends  though many acquaintances.
— Anonymous
Make all good men your well-wishers  and then  in the years' steady sifting  some of them will turn into friends.
— John Hay
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.
— Lord Chesterfield
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress  for no particular excellence in themselves  but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
— William Hazlitt
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be courteous to all  but intimate with few  and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
— George Washington
Be slow to fall into friendship  but when thou art in  continue firm and constant.
— Socrates
Let him have the key of thy heart  who hath the lock of his own.
— Sir Thomas Browne
Books and friends should be few but good.
— Anonymous
Sudden friendship  sure repentance.
— Anonymous
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable  a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
— Walter Savage Landor
Acquaintance I would have  but when it depends not on the number  but the choice of friends.
— Abraham Cowley
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
— Thomas Fuller
Wishing to be friends is quick work  but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
Be slow in choosing a friend  slower in changing.
— Benjamin Franklin
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
— Euripides
Treat your friends as you do your picture  and place them in their best light.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
Character builds slowly  but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
— Faith Baldwin
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
— Anonymous
If I wanted to become a tramp  I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure  I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things  I would look around me for those who are succeeding  and do as they have done.
— Joseph Marshall Wade
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
— Thomas Fuller
By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess  even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.
— The Panchatantra
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil  too.
— Euripides
Tell me whom you frequent  and I will tell you who you are.
— French proverb
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation  for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
— George Washington
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native  your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken  you study mineralogy best among miners  and so with everything else.
— Johann von Goethe
Tell me thy company  and I'll tell thee what thou art.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Who friendship with a knave hath made  is judged a partner in the trade.
— John Gay
The lion is ashamed  it's true  when he hunts with the fox.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
— Solomon
Life is partly what we make it  and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
— Tehyi Hsieh
Keep good men company  and you shall be of their number.
— Anonymous
A man becomes like those whose society he loves.
— Hindu proverb
A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot  a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.
— Arab proverb
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
— Spanish proverb
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
— Thomas Fuller
111 company is like a dog  who dirts those most whom he loves best.
— Jonathan Swift
Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.
— Turkish proverb
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
— Confucius
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals  or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
— Publilius Syrus
A man is known by the company he keeps.
— Anonymous
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things  human and divine  conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
— Cicero
Friendship is a union of spirits  a marriage of hearts  and the bond there of virtue.
— Samuel Johnson
To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.
— Aldous Huxley
Shared joys make a friend  not shared sufferings.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Seek those who find your road agreeable  your personality and mind stimulating  your philosophy acceptable  and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not  seek their own kind.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
To like and dislike the same things  this is what makes a solid friendship.
— Sallust
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting  there must not only be equal virtue on each part  but virtue of the same kind  not only the same end must be proposed  but the same means must be approved by both.
— Samuel Johnson
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on  without enquiry and almost at first sight  the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends  the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
— George Santayana
Men only become friends by community of pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship  we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
— Charlotte Bronte
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
— Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
— Francis Quarles
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
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
I have always differentiated between two types of friends  those who want proofs of friendship  and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself  and the others for themselves.
— Gerard de Nerval
Friendship  like credit  is highest where it is not used.
— Elbert Hubbard
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
— James F. Byrnes
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts  for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
— Frances Farmer