1. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. - Toni Morrison
2. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. - Thomas Fuller
3. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. - Epicurus
4. A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. - Saint Francis de Sales
5. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. - Chanakya
6. Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. - Chanakya
7. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch
8. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. - Euripides
9. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. - Euripides
10. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides
11. Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing. - Jennifer Aniston
12. Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. - Herman Melville
13. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
14. As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. - King Solomon
15. Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. - Herodotus
16. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. - Hubert H. Humphrey
17. The best time to make friends is before you need them. - Ethel Barrymore
18. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin
19. Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. - Washington Irving
20. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian
21. Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. - Baltasar Gracian
22. True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. - Baltasar Gracian
23. Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day. - Justin Bieber
24. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. - Honore de Balzac
25. A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. - William Penn
26. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
27. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
28. Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. - Bill Watterson
29. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjold
30. A friend is what the heart needs all the time. - Henry Van Dyke
31. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasow
32. 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. - E. W. Howe
33. Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. - E. W. Howe
34. You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. - Elizabeth Taylor
35. Friends are born, not made. - Henry Adams
36. A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams
37. Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius
38. Friends are the siblings God never gave us. - Mencius
39. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - Jean de la Bruyere
40. 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
41. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich
42. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! - Doug Larson
43. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
44. If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald
45. My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. - Jodie Foster
46. When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. - Hilaire Belloc
47. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. - Plautus
48. It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. - Mignon McLaughlin
49. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - Octavia E. Butler
50. False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. - Richard Burton
51. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. - Shirley MacLaine
52. Love demands infinitely less than friendship. - George Jean Nathan
53. Friendship and money: oil and water. - Mario Puzo
54. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. - Katherine Mansfield
55. Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. - Judy Holliday
56. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. - Len Wein
57. 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 Miller
58. 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
59. How delightful to find a friend in everyone. - Joseph Brodsky
60. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. - Amos Bronson Alcott
61. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. - Charles Kingsley
62. That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. - Francis Quarles
63. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. - Charles Eastman
64. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. - Frederick William Faber
65. It takes a long time to grow an old friend. - John Leonard
66. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. - Francesco Guicciardini
67. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
68. Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. - Margaret Walker
69. Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. - John Webster
70. 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
71. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. - Pam Brown
72. A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. - Robert Hall
73. Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. - Robert Staughton Lynd
74. The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? - Eugene Kennedy
75. Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. - Augustine Birrell
76. 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
77. Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. - Samuel Pepys
78. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. - Friedrich Nietzsche
79. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. - John Wooden
80. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde
81. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche
82. How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Albert Camus
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