The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
—Joseph Addison
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
—Anonymous
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
—W. H. Auden
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.
—Hilaire Belloc
Dedicatory Ode
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
—Ambrose Bierce
The Enlarged Devil's
Dictionary, 1906
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
—Jennie Jerome
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
—Esther M. Clark
Friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
—Charles Caleb
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
—Father Jerome
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and
then wait to hear the answer.
—Ed Cunningham
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on
another.
—George Eliot
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
—Ralph Waldo
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor
the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the
spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers
that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust
him.
—Ralph Waldo
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
—Henry Ford
If you have one true Friend, you have more than your
Share comes to.
—Thomas Fuller
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.
—Kahlil Gibran
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to
hold on to them.
—Johann Wolfgang
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem
strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
—Johann Wolfgang
The best mirror is an old friend.
—George Herbert
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if
there is anything you can do. Think up something
appropriate and do it.
—E. W. Howe
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
—Mencius
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them
away.
—Wilson Mizner
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not
born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a
new world is born.
—Anais Nin
One's friends are that part of the human race with which
one can be human.
—George Santayana
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up
your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you
can see a noble image of yourself.
—George Bernard
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards
those we love keeps our affections for them from turning
flat.
—Logan P. Smith
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
—Robert Louis
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by
others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and
no man is useless while he has a friend.
—Robert Louis
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by
others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and
no man is useless while he has a friend.
—Robert Louis
I am a part of all that I have met.
—Alfred, Lord
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep,
or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and
thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
—J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell—you
see, I have friends in both places.
—Mark Twain
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us,
but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the
world walks out.
—Walter Winchell
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
—William Butler
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