The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

23.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

24.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

25.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

26.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

30.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

31.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

32.

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

Woolf, Virginia

33.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

34.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

35.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

36.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

37.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

38.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

39.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

40.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

41.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

42.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

43.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

44.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

45.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

46.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

48.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

49.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

50.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca