Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.
Mark TwainBetween friends there is no need of justice.
AristotleI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayHowever rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWords are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William ShakespeareWishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
AristotleWhat is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
AristotleA friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Maya AngelouFriendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
C. S. LewisLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel ProustBe slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
SocratesA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim MorrisonThe things I want to know are in books, my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham LincolnThere is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest HemingwayThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert HubbardThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBooks, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel JohnsonIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil GibranA brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
Benjamin FranklinThe glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiLots 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.
Oprah WinfreyShe is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Oprah WinfreyTrue friends stab you in the front.
Oscar WildeWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Herman HesseDon’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.
Paulo CoelhoMisery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William ShakespeareBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinThe 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.
Henri NouwenLaughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward BeecherMemory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Gilbert ParkerIt is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
ConfuciusDo not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George SantayanaA trusty comrade is always of use, and a chronicler still more so.
Arthur Conan DoyleI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar WildeIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardTo the query ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
AristotleIn poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.
AristotleFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranDo not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends or cannot acquire knowledge.
ChanakyaIt is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiTrust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend, and every foe.
Alexander PopeEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaAn excellent man, he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
Oscar WildeEvery gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard BachYour friend is your needs answered.
Kahlil GibranLet there be no purpose in friendship, save the deepening of the spirit.
Kahlil GibranI learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl SandburgA puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh BillingsThe most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya AngelouThe man with a host of friends, who slaps on the back everybody he meets, is regarded as the friend of nobody.
AristotleI say that habit is but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
AristotleLaughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar WildeFriendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel JohnsonThe worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis BaconCan miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?
Richard BachJesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
Alan WattsEach time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
Paulo CoelhoAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis BaconI'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
Taylor SwiftOur concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHave no friends not equal to yourself.
ConfuciusThere are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinI do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
ConfuciusAs I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'RourkeWhen you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson WellesIf there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson WellesWhat are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends on things like space and time then when we finally overcome space and time we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space and all we have left is Here. Overcome time and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"
Richard Bach