"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Choose your friends carefully you never know who is on your side, and remember the truth shall prevail. "
LINK
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
Confucious (Chinese philosopher)
"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
Jacques Delille
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
Samuel Johnson
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
Samuel Johnston
"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
Duc de la Rochefoucauld
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
George Washington
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
Epicurus (Greek philosopher)
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
Socrates (Greek Philosopher)
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
Woodrow Wilson
"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."
William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
Aristotle
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
Sir Walter Scott
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
Oscar Wilde
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
Cicero
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
Helen Keller
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
Aristotle
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
Saint Jerome
"I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
William Shakespeare
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
Thomas Jefferson
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
John Boyle O'Reilly
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
Artistotle
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
Edward Everett Hale
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
Fracis Bacon
"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
James Francis Byrnes
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
Cicero
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead."
Anna Cummins
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the true sourse of art, science, and friendship."
Albert Einstien
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
Thomas Jefferson
"The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."
Hilda Brett Farr
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Helen Keller
"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking foward to sharing time with them again."
Lee Wilkinson
"Ah, how good it feels...the hand of an old friend"
Mary Englebright
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."
Aristotle
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
Aristotle
"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Francis Bacon
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
Cicero
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."
Edith Wharton
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
C. S. Lewis
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
Sir Walter Scott
"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
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
Mary Catherwood
"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."
Benjamin Franklin
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
William Arthur Ward
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
Elbert Hubard
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
Ecclesiastes
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
Oscar Wilde
"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."
William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
Cicero
"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak."
John Donne
"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
George Eliot
"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
Thomas Jefferson
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
Kahil Gibran
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
Walt Whitman
"True friendship is never serene."
Marquise de Sevigne
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
Francis Bacon
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
James Fenimore Cooper