Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Friends are the best to turn to when you’re having a rough day.
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
