The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. – Barbara Kingsolver
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. – E.W. Howe
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. – Edith Wharton
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. – Benjamin Franklin
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. – Author Unknown
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. – Alice Duer Miller
It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. – Eustache Deschamps
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. – Emil Ludwig
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. – Samuel Pepys
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. – Sarah Orne Jewett
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal
