If you have one true friend you have more than your share. – Thomas Fuller
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. – Saint Francis de Sales
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. – Henry David Thoreau
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracian
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjold
A friend is, as it were, a second self. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. – Walt Whitman
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. – King Solomon
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. – Baltasar Gracian
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? – Eugene Kennedy
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. – Euripides
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. – George Jean Nathan
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. – Herman Melville
