A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. -Unknown.
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. -Unknown.
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, -Unknown.
Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.