“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
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Source: The Women of Brewster Place
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”
Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
Source: Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.”
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Source: Winchell exclusive:
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Source: The Waves
“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Source: Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration
“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
“Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
“If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
“A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.”
“We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.”
Source: The Undying One: And Other Poems
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think