“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. ” – Henry Brook Adams“
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.” – St. Augustine
“Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.” – Nicholson Baker
“A friend loveth at all times.” – Proverbs 17:17
“A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.” – Josh Billings
“Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.” – Arthur Block
“Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ” – Randolphe S. Bourne
“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.” – Christian Nevell Bovee
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ” – Robert Brault
“Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.” – Nicholas Breton
“A good friend is worth pursuing… but why would a good friend be running away?” – Ashleigh Brilliant
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” – Charlotte Bronte
“Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.” – John Mason Brown
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil — but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely ” – Pam Brown
“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.” – Buddha
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.” – James F. Byrnes
“I have always laid it down as a maxim –and found it justified by experience –that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex –but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.” – Lord Byron
“The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.” – Oswald Chambers
“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.” – Sebastian-Roch Nicholas De Chamfort
“A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.” – Sheryl Condie
“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” – Frank Crane
“A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.” – Frank Crane
