When we talk about Friends, I believe the following:
The only way to have a friend is to be one
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life. Real friend says, What’s new with you?
A simple friend doesn’t know your parents’ first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
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.
Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
The best mirror is an old friend.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
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?
Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.
Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud
If you were somebody else, would you want to be friends with you?
We really don’t have enemies. It’s just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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.
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
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.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
My friends are my estate.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.
Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I’m aware of a strength that emanates in the background.
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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.
Friends are born, not made.
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm…
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
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.
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
