If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

20.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

22.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

23.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

24.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

25.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

26.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

29.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

30.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

31.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

32.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

33.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

34.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

35.

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

36.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

37.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

38.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

41.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

42.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

43.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

44.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

45.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

46.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

47.

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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