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“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“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.”

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“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.”

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“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.”