Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Friends are treasures.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friendâor a meaningful day.
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Good friends are good for your health.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.