A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Love is friendship set on fire.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.