Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

22.

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.

23.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

25.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

Walker, Alice

27.

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

28.

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

29.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

31.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

32.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

33.

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.

34.

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

35.

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

Wein, Len

36.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

37.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Proverb, Russian

40.

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

41.

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

42.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

43.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

44.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

45.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

47.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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.

49.

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

50.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian