One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

18.

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

19.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

20.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

21.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

24.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

26.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

28.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

29.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

30.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

31.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

32.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

33.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

35.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

36.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

37.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

38.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

39.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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.

Brault, Robert

41.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

44.

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

45.

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

46.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

47.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

48.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

49.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

50.

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