Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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 H. Glasgow
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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