“Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.”
“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
“The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.”
“A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.”
“Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.”
“As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.”
“Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.”
“To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''”
“To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.”
“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.”
“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.”
“The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.”
“How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.”
“In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.”
“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.”
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.”
“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”
“I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”
“Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.”
“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”
“Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.”
“Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.”
“Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.”
“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
“Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.”
“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.”