Friends are proved by adversity.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

I have always laid it down as a maxim –and found it justified by experience –that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex –but...

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Let your best be for your friend…

A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

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

Friendship demands the ability to do without it.

No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one’s partners in the waltz of this world –not much remembered when the ball is over.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a song,Should know what issue is at stake:It is myself that I remake.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us ‘old friend in the years to come.”

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half