The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.
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.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
When 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 way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.