“Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.” — Montaigne
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Kahlil Gibran
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” — Mencius
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
“Friendship is a furrow in the sand.” — Tongan proverb
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” — Butler
“Friendship is . . . the sort of love one can imagine between the angels.” — C. S. Lewis
“Friendship of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.” — John Dryden
“Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.” — Joseph Roux
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love; but love never subsides into friendship.” — Byron
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship — never.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.” — Anonymous
“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” — James Byrnees
“Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.” — Old proverb
“Friends are born, not made.” — “One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.” — Henry Adams
“Friends share all things.” — Pythagoras
“A friend is another I.” — Zeno
“True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.” — Gandhi
“Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.” — French proverb
“Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.” —Scandinavian proverb
“A hedge between keeps friendship green.” — French proverb
“The constant friend is never welcome.” — Jewish proverb
“Absence strengtheneth friendship, where the last recollections were kindly.” — Old proverb
“Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.” — Gracian
“A blessed thing it is for any man to have a friend.” — Kingsley
“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” — Homer
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Latin proverb
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.” — John Selden
“Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to them.” — Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 9:10
“I have no talent for making new friends, but oh, such a genius for fidelity to old ones!” George Louis Palmella
“A man that has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.” — Ali Ibn-Abu-Talib
“A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.” — Old proverb
“Do you want to make friends? Be friendly. Forget yourself.” — Dale Carnegie
“Be a friend to yourself, and others will.” — “Be slow in choosing friends, but slower in changing them.” — Scottish Proverbs
“Choose your friends with care, that you may have choice friends.” — Old proverb
“Depth of friendship does not depend upon length of acquaintance.” — Sir Rabindranath Tagore
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.” — Oscar Wilde
“I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.” — Samuel Johnson
“Strangers are friends you have yet to meet.” — Roberta Lieberman
“The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.” — Sa’di
“Promises may get friends, but ‘tis performances that keep them.” — Old proverb
“I cannot love a friend whose love is words.” — “Find friendship an unstable anchorage.” — Sophocles
“Save us from our friends.” — A. Wydeville
“Our worst enemies are those friends who have failed to find us profitable.” — “False
friends are worse than open enemies.” — “With friends like these who needs enemies?” Old Proverbs
“O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.” — Sa’di
“Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.” — Edgar Howe
“Great men gain doubly when they make foes their friends.” — Edward Bulwer Lytton
“Suspicion is the poison of true friendship.” — Augustine of Hippo
“He that wrongs his friend wrongs himself more.” — Tennyson
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.” — Francis Quarles
“He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one.” — Old proverb
“Greater love hath no man than this, that he will lay down his life for his friends.” —Bible, John 15:13
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.” — Henry Home
“Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.” — Plautus
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” — Ennius
“But in deed, a friend is never known till a man have need.” — “An empty purse frightens away friends.” — English proverbs
“A poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.” — Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 8:21
“He is a weak friend who cannot bear with his friend’s weakness.” — Old proverb
“Two men cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” —La Bruyère
“He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.” — Old proverb
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell a friend his faults.” — Beecher
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” — Sicilian proverb
“A true friend does sometimes venture to be offensive.” — Old proverb
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” — Bible
“Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.” — Solon
“To your friends be the same in prosperity and in adversity.” — Periander
“Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.” — Plutarch
“One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.” —Swedish proverb
“True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.” — Theophrastus
“Go slowly to the feast of your friends, but go swiftly to their misfortunes.” — Chilon
“The road to a friend’s house is never long.” — “Better a friend’s bite than an ememy’s caress.” — Danish proverbs
“I shall live till all my friends are weary of me.” — Swift
“No face is ever hopelessly plain through which a friendly soul looks out upon the world.” — Old proverb
“Hold a true friend with both hands.” — Nigerian proverb
“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.” — Alexander Pope
“Each year to ancient friendships adds a ring, as to an oak.” — James Russell Lowell
“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” — Wilson Mizner
“You must consider every man on earth as a friend.” — Baha’u’llah
“The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.” — Joseph Addison
“No man is useless while he has a friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“Love friendship.” — Sophist saying
“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
“Friendship is one soul abiding in two bodies.” — “My best friend is one who is wishing me well wishes, it for my sake.” — “No man would choose a friendless
existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.” — “A man with a host of friends who slaps on the back every man he meets is regarded as
the friend of nobody.” — Aristotle
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.” — “We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault.” — “Be a friend to
thyself, and others will be so too.” — “A friend to all is a friend to none.” — “A good friend is my nearest relationship.” — “Few there are that will endure a true
friend.” — “They are my friend who speaks well of me behind my back.” — “It is best to live as friends with those in time with whom we would be to all
eternity.” — Thomas Fuller
“Friendship’s the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure.” — “Judge before friendship, then confide till death.” — “Reserve will wound
friendship, and distrust will destroy it.” — Edward Young
“Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.” — “A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” — “I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.” — “We are advertised by our loving friends.” — Shakespeare
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.” —
“There are three faithful friends — an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” —
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” — Benjamin Franklin
“The best mirror is an old friend.” — “A friend to every man and to no man is the same thing.” — “Life without a friend is death without a witness.” — Spanish
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