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
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
Friends are God's way of taking care of us. If
you should die before me, ask if you could bring a
friend.
- Stone Temple Pilots
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. We all take different paths in
life, but no matter where we go, we take a little
of each other everywhere.
- Tim McGraw
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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
I might give my life for my friend, but he had
better not ask me to do up a parcel.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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
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
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
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
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
- John Boyle O'Reilly
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
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