- Friends are born, not made.
* Henry Adams
- Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him.
* Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
* Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
* Aristotle
- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
* Francis Bacon
- Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
* Eustace Budgell
- Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
* Albert Camus
- How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
* Albert Camus
- Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.
* Charles Caleb Colton
- What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
* George Eliot
- A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
* Euripedes
- It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
- No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
* Thomas Fuller
- Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
* Elbert Hubbard
- My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.
* Lee Iacocca
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
- However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
- The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
* W. Somerset Maugham
- We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
* W. Somerset Maugham
- If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
* Michel de Montaigne
- Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
* George Jean Nathan
- Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
- Hold a true friend with both your hands.
* Nigerian Proverb
- To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
* William Shakespeare
- Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
* William Shakespeare
- The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
* Mark Twain
- Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
* Voltaire
- Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
* Oscar Wilde
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