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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.

Frances Ward Weller

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

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

Theocritus

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

Benjamin Disraeli
 

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

John Churton Collins

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

James F. Byrnes

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

Randolph S. Bourne
 

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasow

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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 the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

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.
Edward W. Howe

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

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Albert Camus

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.

Edward Everett Hale

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

Those we hold most dear never truly leave us … they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our lives.

Isabel Northon

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

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

Sigmund Freud

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Samuel Patterson

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Mark Twain

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship 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 kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Dr Samuel Johnson

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Dr Samuel Johnson

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

Mark Twain

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