“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.”
“Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.”
וֶהֱוֵי זָנָב לָאֲרָיוֹת, וְאַל תְּהִי רֹאשׁ לַשּׁוּעָלִים
Text: Torat Emet via Sefaria (public domain)
“Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.”
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
“That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.”
“A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.”
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
“Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.”
“I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.”
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”
“Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.”
“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
“I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”
“Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.”
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
“Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
“A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.”
“The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.”
“Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.”
“It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?”
“Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.”
“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.”
“Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.”
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
“Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.”
“May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.”