All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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.
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
Friends are born, not made.
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.
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
True friends stab you in the front.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
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.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
