Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
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