What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

24.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

25.

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

Aristotle

26.

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

Wein, Len

27.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

30.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

31.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

33.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

34.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

35.

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

36.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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.

38.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

39.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

40.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

41.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

43.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

44.

It 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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

Randolf, G.

46.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

47.

Make friends before you need them

48.

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

Alcott, Louisa May