 If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe |
 The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle |
 He makes no friend who never made a foe. - Alfred Tennyson |
 A friend is a person who shows us the way and walks a piece of the road with us. - Francesco Alberoni |
 Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller |
 Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose. - Tehyi Hsieh |
 One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides |
 The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. - Abraham Lincoln |
 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 |
 You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Bernard Meltzer |
 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 |
 The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau |
 The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. - Edward Everett Hale |
 It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. - Mahatma Gandhi |
 A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. - George Washington |
 There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. - Hillaire Belloc |
 Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again. - Lee Wilkinson |
 I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends. - William Shakespeare |
 How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. - William Rotsler |
 A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. - Homer |
 The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau |
 Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech Proverb |