An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali
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
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Khalil Gibran
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
Friends are born, not made.Henry B. Adams
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle
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 Duer Miller
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
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
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. Oscar Wilde
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. Len Wein
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
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 Alexander Eastman
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Saint Francis de Sales
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. Friedrich Nietzsche
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Benjamin Franklin
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine
A friend is, as it were, a second self. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. Judy Holliday
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen
He who hath many friends hath none. Aristotle
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.