The only way to have a friend is to be one
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life.real friend says, What's new with you?
--Unknown
A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book
--Unknown
I get by with a little help from my friends.
--John Lennon
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
--Unknown
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
Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.
--Unknown
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
--Elbert Hubbard
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
--Mary Catherwood
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
--Unknown
I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
--Cher
The best mirror is an old friend.
--George Herbert
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
--Wilson Mizner
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.
--Francis Bacon
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
--Henry David Thoreau
Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.
--Unknown
Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
--Elbert Hubbard
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
--Jean de La Fontaine
Dear George, Remember no man's a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings. Love, Clarence
--Clarence, the angel It's a Wonderful Life
Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
--American Proverb
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
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you were somebody else, would you want to be friends with you?
--Unknown
Are we going to be friends forever? Asked Piglet. Even longer, Pooh answered.
--A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
The best vitamin for making friends is B-1.
--Unknown
We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
--Unknown
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
--Moliere (1622-1672)
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.
--Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Roman religious figure and philosopher
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
--Walter Winchell
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
--Albert Camus
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
--Charles Caleb Colton
My friends are my estate.
--Emily Dickinson
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
--Bible: Ecclesiastes
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
--Mary Catherwood
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
--C. S. Lewis
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
--Logan Pearsall Smith
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
--Abraham Lincoln
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background.
--Claudette Renner
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
--Oscar Wilde
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Teresa
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
--Benjamin Franklin
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
--Aristotle
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
--Mark Twain
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
--Cicero
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.
--Francis Bacon
Friends are born, not made.
--Henry Adams
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
--Anatole Broyard
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
--James Francis Byrnes
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
--Alexander Pope
What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.
--Aristotle
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
--Saint Jerome
I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.
--William Shakespeare
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
--Henry Ford
It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm...
--Shelly
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
--John Boyle O'Reilly
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
--Thomas Jefferson
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
--George Eliot
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
--Thomas Jefferson
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
--Edward Everett Hale
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
--Francoise Sagan
Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.
--Kahil Gibran
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
--Bejamin Disraeli
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
--Walt Whitman
