Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

25.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

26.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

30.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

32.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

33.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

34.

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

35.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

36.

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

37.

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

38.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

39.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

40.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

43.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

44.

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

45.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

46.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

48.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Pythagoras

50.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler