“Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.”
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”
“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”
“I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.”
“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”
“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.”
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -”
“Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
“Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“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.”
“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
“It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.”
“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
“Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.”
“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.”
“The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.”
“Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.”
“Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.”
“These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.”
“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.”
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”
“A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.”
“I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses”
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
“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.”