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1. A friend is a second self. – Aristotle
2. No friendship is an accident. – O. Henry
3. Friends are born, not made. – Henry Adams
4. My friends are my estate. – Emily Dickinson
5. Friendship needs no words. – Dag Hammarskjold
6. Opposition is true friendship. – William Blake
7. Friendship is one mind in two bodies. – Mencius
8. A friend to all is a friend to none. – Aristotle
9. Let your best be for your friend. – Khalil Gibran
10. Friendship and money: oil and water. – Mario Puzo
11. A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams
12. True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde
13. Where there are friends there is wealth. – Plautus
14. Friendship is Love without his wings! – Lord Byron
15. Have no friends not equal to yourself. – Confucius
16. A decent boldness ever meets with friends. – Homer
17. The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert
18. Your friend is your needs answered. – Khalil Gibran
19. Friendship is essentially a partnership. – Aristotle
20. Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. – Ovid
21. You Too? I thought I was the only one. – C. S. Lewis
22. Real friends stab you in the front. – Jonathan Davis
23. Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name. – Ovid
24. My only politics have been friendship. – Jean Cocteau
25. Surround yourself with love, not friends. – Lil Wayne
26. Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius
27. Keep your friendships in repair. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. We die as often as we lose a friend. – Publilius Syrus
29. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. – Euripides
30. Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. – Homer
31. Everybody needs one essential friend. – William Glasser
32. Friends make life a lot more fun. – Charles R. Swindoll
33. Friends are proved by adversity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
34. Death is mighty, and is no one’s friend. – Roger Zelazny
35. A friend in need is a friend indeed! – Benjamin Franklin
36. Between friends there is no need of justice. – Aristotle
37. Truth springs from argument amongst friends. – David Hume
38. Strangers are just friends waiting to happen – Rod McKuen
39. Have Friends. ‘Tis a second existence. – Baltasar Gracian
40. Friendship is a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
41. Friendship has its illusions no less than love. – Stendhal
42. Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. – Arthur Bloch
43. Life is nothing without friendship. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
44. Never injure a friend, even in jest. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
45. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi
46. Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. – Alexander Pope
47. Love and friendship exclude each other. – Jean de la Bruyere
48. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. – Samantha Norman
49. Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. – Thomas Fuller
50. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. – Euripides
51. Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
52. We do not remember days, we remember moments. – Cesare Pavese
53. All you need to do to be my friend is like me. – Taylor Swift
54. Friendship with oneself is all important. – Eleanor Roosevelt
55. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. – Aristotle
56. A friend is a gift you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson
57. Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends. – Joe Cocker
58. A good friend will always stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde
59. True friendship is a plant of slow growth. – George Washington
60. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. – Marcel Proust
61. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
62. A friend is, as it were, a second self. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
63. A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. – Homer
64. A friend is what the heart needs all the time. – Henry Van Dyke
65. To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing – Lilian Whiting
66. He makes no friend who never made a foe. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
67. Happiness is being married to your best friend. – Barbara Weeks
68. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few. – George Washington
69. The friendship that can cease has never been real. – St. Jerome
70. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. – Friedrich Nietzsche
71. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler
72. A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. – Maya Angelou
73. He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. – Abraham Kuyper
74. The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat. – Erma Bombeck
76. No man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson
77. Show me a friend in need and I’ll show you a pest. – Joe E. Lewis
78. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. – Eustache Deschamps
79. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. – Oprah Winfrey
80. Friends, though absent, are still present. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
81. Some people care too much. I think it’s called love. – A. A. Milne
82. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. – William Blake
83. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. – Solon
84. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. – Ruth Graham
85. Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice. – Otto von Bismarck
86. Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. – Thomas Fuller
87. Love demands infinitely less than friendship. – George Jean Nathan
88. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa
89. Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. – Samuel Johnson
90. We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see – A. A. Milne
91. A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. – Bil Keane
92. A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn’t. – Bernard Williams
93. Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends. – William Feather
94. True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. – St. Jerome
95. Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t. – Judy Holliday
96. The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. – Joseph Addison
97. Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends. – Mary Anne Radmacher
98. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship. – Dalai Lama
99. I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. – Saint Augustine
100. Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. – Jacques Delille
101. A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities. – William Shakespeare
102. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de La Fontaine
103. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. – Richard Bach
104. I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. – Walt Whitman
105. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford
106. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin
107. Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. – Sarah Dessen
108. Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for. – Sylvester Stallone
109. Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection. – John Lyly
110. Friendship is infinitely better than kindness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
111. Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. – Oscar Wilde
112. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. – Robert E. Lee
113. A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. – Abraham Lincoln
114. For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends. – Aeschylus
115. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln
116. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
117. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. – Henry David Thoreau
118. „Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. – Louisa May Alcott
119. Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. – Henry Drummond
120. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. – Seneca the Younger
121. When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. – Joseph Joubert
122. Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. – Plautus
123. Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. – Leonardo da Vinci
124. The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore
125. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt
126. The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. – Francis Bacon
127. Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. – Elbert Hubbard
128. We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. – Caroline Norton
129. I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. – Oscar Wilde
130. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. – William Blake
131. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. – Mary Browne
132. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. – Euripides
133. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. – C. S. Lewis
134. Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. – Joseph Addison
135. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich
136. He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. – Oscar Wilde
137. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. – Thomas Fuller
138. Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly. – Publilius Syrus
139. Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness. – William Arthur Ward
140. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln
141. A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be. – Janette Oke
142. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau
143. The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. – Wilson Mizner
144. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard
145. You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. – Joseph Conrad
146. Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
147. A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia
148. My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. – Solomon Ibn Gabirol
149. Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. – Lord Chesterfield
150. Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure. – Anthony D. Williams
151. Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. – Robin Morgan
152. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? – Robert Burns
153. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. – Abraham Lincoln
154. To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him…two. – Norman Douglas
155. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
156. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. – Samuel Johnson
157. To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship. – Sallust
158. Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. – George Eliot
159. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln
160. I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
161. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison
162. The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
163. The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. – Gwyneth Paltrow
164. Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold. – Charles Lamb
165. Be a friend. You don’t need glory. Friendship is a simple story. – Edgar Guest
166. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
167. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. – Henry David Thoreau
168. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. – Virginia Woolf
169. Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. – Margaret Walker
170. People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits. – Wayne Dyer
171. Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship. – Samuel Johnson
172. The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. – Sallust
173. A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. – Charles Darwin
174. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. – Bill Watterson
175. He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God. – Johann Kaspar Lavater
176. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracian
177. There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. – Socrates
178. When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. – Diane von Furstenberg
179. Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. – Michel de Montaigne
180. True friendship is never serene. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
181. He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. – Joseph Joubert
182. Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world. – Jean Paul
183. Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. – E. W. Howe
184. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. – Confucius
185. Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. – Dorothy Parker
186. We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. – Sylvia Plath
187. True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley) – Lucy Maud Montgomery
188. A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. – Austin O’Malley
189. Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better. – E. W. Howe
190. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. – George Eliot
191. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibran
192. The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. – Maya Angelou
193. He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. – William Hazlitt
194. May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. – Voltaire
195. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable – Unknown
196. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. – Plautus
197. Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. – Chris Bradford
198. The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
199. As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something. – Dean Smith
200. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
201. Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. – John Evelyn
202. Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. – Samuel Pepys
203. Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. – Richelle Mead
204. Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. – Arthur Schopenhauer
205. Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding. – Sri Chinmoy
206. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. – Aristotle
207. Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . . – Gilbert K. Chesterton
208. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. – Rabindranath Tagore
209. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard
210. Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. – George MacDonald
211. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. – Confucius
212. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. – Oscar Wilde
213. The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure. – Henry Fielding
214. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. – Hubert H. Humphrey
215. Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. – Walter Dean Myers
216. Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never. – Charles Caleb Colton
217. A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
218. There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate – Unknown
219. We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their face away. – Walker Percy
220. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain
221. Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend. – Anthony D. Williams
222. I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you – Roy Croft
223. The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. – John Marsden
224. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam. – J. R. R. Tolkien
225. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. – Les Brown
226. A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you. – Francoise Sagan
227. That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. – Marcus Aurelius
228. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson
229. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. – Khalil Gibran
230. Friendship,” said Christopher Robin, „is a very comforting thing to have. – A. A. Milne
231. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. – Sylvia Plath
232. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas
233. Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. – Joseph Parry
234. It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends. – Cynthia Rylant
235. My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
236. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. – William Shakespeare
237. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. – Aristotle
238. Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy. – Aeschylus
239. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. – Rumi
240. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. – Henry Adams
241. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. – Martin Farquhar Tupper
242. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. – John Lennon
243. Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art. – Miguel de Cervantes
244. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. – Aristotle
245. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
246. The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. – Jay McInerney
247. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
248. Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen
249. That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. – Francis Quarles
250. Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner
251. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
252. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine – Thomas More
253. Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. – Charles Caleb Colton
254. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. – Voltaire
255. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. – Doug Larson
256. Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. – John D. MacDonald
257. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller
258. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. – Len Wein
259. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. – John Churton Collins
260. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
261. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. – Socrates
262. If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Desmond Tutu
263. Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends. – Robert Breault
264. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Donna Roberts
265. You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal. – Elizabeth Taylor
266. I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. – Cher
267. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. – A. A. Milne
268. As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. – Robert Breault
269. But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
270. It’s less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
271. A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
272. Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. – Khalil Gibran
273. I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. – Samuel Johnson
274. One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. – George Santayana
275. It isn’t kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. – Lawana Blackwell
276. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer
277. May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. – Edward Ramsay
278. It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. – Epicurus
279. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. – A. A. Milne
280. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. – Markus Zusak
281. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
282. Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. – Augustus William Hare
283. Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light. – Roger Rosenblatt
284. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
285. The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. – Mark Twain
286. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker
287. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. – David Storey
288. Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
289. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. – Orison S. Marden
290. Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex. – Philibert Joseph Roux
291. Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
292. The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. – Homer
293. Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. – E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
294. There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. – Benjamin Franklin
295. Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. – Leon Uris
296. Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it. – Kathleen Norris
297. However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
298. At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry – Victor Hugo
299. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb
300. Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man. – Plutarch
301. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. – Ben Jonson
302. Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it?ll always get you the right ones – John Lennon
303. Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
304. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham
305. Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
306. We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. Even longer,’ Pooh answered. – A. A. Milne
307. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. – Henry David Thoreau
308. Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake. – William Blake
309. Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. – James F. Byrnes
310. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 – Jesus, did you? – Stephen King
311. No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. – Thomas Fuller
312. Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society. – Robert Blair
313. Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. – Socrates
314. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. – Samuel Johnson
315. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. – Giotto di Bondone
316. If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh. – P. C. Cast
317. It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends. – Bob Dylan
318. Don’t marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. – William Glasser
319. I have lost friends, some by death…others by sheer inability to cross the street. – Virginia Woolf
320. Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason – Mason Cooley
321. Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. – Lord Byron
322. Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. – Friedrich Nietzsche
323. People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often. – C. S. Lewis
324. The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. – Joseph Addison
325. Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. – Henry Adams
326. There are very few honest friends–the demand is not particularly great. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
327. Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. – Jean de la Bruyere
328. Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. – Rumi
329. I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends – William Shakespeare
330. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche
331. When you don’t share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. – Chuck Palahniuk
332. Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. – Groucho Marx
333. He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
334. Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. – Alexander Pope
335. We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them… – Evelyn Waugh
336. We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
337. Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjold
338. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller
339. Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. – Charles Dickens
340. If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern…what better gift? – Fred Rogers
341. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
342. The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.] – Ovid
343. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
344. Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. – Saint Francis de Sales
345. It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. – Nicole Richie
346. For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price. – Sophocles
347. We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. – Dalai Lama
348. Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. – Benjamin Franklin
349. Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand. – Robert Breault
350. Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau
351. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.
352. Every girl needs a bestfriend to help her laugh when she thinks she`ll never smile again – Cassie Ventura
353. All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself. – Aristotle
354. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. – Tennessee Williams
355. Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. – William Shakespeare
356. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. – Douglas Pagels
357. If you make it plain you like people, it’s hard for them to resist liking you back. – Lois McMaster Bujold
358. When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. – James Boswell
359. Friends . . . They are kind to each other’s hopes. They cherish each other’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau
360. I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places. – Mark Twain
361. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone. – Umar
362. Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard
363. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
364. All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
365. Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life – Drake
366. To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. – Ricky Nelson
367. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. – Jean de la Bruyere
368. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. – Jean de La Fontaine
369. If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative. – Scott Boras
370. Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. – Henry Ward Beecher
371. I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith
372. There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. – P. G. Wodehouse
373. A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. – Alexander Pope
374. What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation! – Henry David Thoreau
375. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. – Oscar Wilde
376. Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats
377. Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends. – Charles Churchill
378. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. – William Shakespeare
379. Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours. – Jennifer Chen
380. When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. – William Arthur Ward
381. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
382. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. – Henry David Thoreau
383. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. – Amos Bronson Alcott
384. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. – Henry David Thoreau
385. Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. – Oscar Wilde
386. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. – Charles Caleb Colton
387. How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. – William Rotsler
388. Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something. – Graham Greene
389. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
390. Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. – Theocritus
391. What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum’st meum’st; omne meum est autem tuum.] – Plautus
392. True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. – Alexander Pope
393. I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
394. Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. – Baron de Montesquieu
395. But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! – Charles Alexander Eastman
396. We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. – Luciano De Crescenzo
397. Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. – Joshua L. Liebman
398. Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. – Robert Breault
399. Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
400. Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
401. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Seneca the Younger
402. Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. – Ouida
403. There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. – Irving Stone
404. When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. – W. Somerset Maugham
405. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. – John Selden
406. I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. – Robert Breault
407. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. – Francesco Guicciardini
408. For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one’s own life, which one loves best. – Sophocles
409. We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter. – Mignon McLaughlin
410. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
411. I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch
412. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. – Theophrastus
413. I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. – Zachary Taylor
414. Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. – Jean de La Fontaine
415. When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. – Anatole Broyard
416. No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. – Francois Mauriac
417. The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
418. We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. – Francis Bacon
419. Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
420. Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it’s not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about. – A. A. Milne
421. Wayne put me right here, that’s who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship. – Drake
422. One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend. – Susan Orlean
423. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. – Martin Luther
424. Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith
425. Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain
426. The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life. – Edward Everett Hale
427. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. – Thomas A. Edison
428. Friends can be said to „fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
429. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. – J. K. Rowling
430. But remember, when it comes to friends, it’s not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it! – Eiichiro Oda
431. Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. – Cardinal Richelieu
432. Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. – Ludwig van Beethoven
433. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith
434. 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
435. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
436. The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable. – Friedrich Nietzsche
437. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I. – Michel de Montaigne
438. Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. – Joseph Addison
439. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith
440. If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them. I’d be at the bottom, hoping to catch them. – Steve Berry
441. We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else’s. – Robert Breault
442. A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head. – Saadi
443. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. – Benjamin Disraeli
444. What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be – and without having to pretend. – Robert Breault
445. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart – Eleanor Roosevelt
446. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. – Pythagoras
447. I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down. – Abraham Lincoln
448. When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. – Aristotle
449. My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. – Stephanie Tubbs Jones
450. 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
451. Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
452. Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. – Lord Chesterfield
453. Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding. – Mary Lou Retton
454. You always think you could have done more. That’s why you need a friend – to tell you you did all you could. – Robert Breault
455. Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. – Ambrose Bierce
456. You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. – A. A. Milne
457. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. – Epicurus
458. Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. – Nora Roberts
459. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. – Miguel de Cervantes
460. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. – Oscar Wilde
461. If a man can tell if he’s been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful. – Johnny Ramone
462. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. – Bernard Meltzer
463. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. – Barbara Kingsolver
464. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. – Oliver Goldsmith
465. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
466. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. – Simone Weil
467. There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires – Nelson Mandela
468. Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
469. A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. – Donna Roberts
470. When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them. – Ann Brashares
471. If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte
472. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
473. I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too. – Madonna Ciccone
474. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. – George Washington
475. You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I’m okay, sometimes that’s just what we need to get us through the day. – Sarah McLachlan
476. I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that. – Confucius
477. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. – George Santayana
478. [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. – Timothy Keller
479. Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
480. Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: „What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” – C. S. Lewis
481. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. – Chanakya
482. Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
483. My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. – Helen Keller
484. 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
485. 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
486. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. – Arnold Bennett
487. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. – Arthur Brisbane
488. Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt
489. You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter
490. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield
491. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. – Richard Bach
492. A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. – Lois Wyse
493. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas
494. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. – Aelred of Rievaulx
495. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. – Henry David Thoreau
496. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. – Charles Kingsley
497. Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time. – Georgia O’Keeffe
498. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson
499. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James
500. The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. – Robert Breault
