| 1.
Friends are born, not made. (Henry Adams) |
|
2. Forsake not an old friend, for a new
one does not compare with him. (Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus
9:10)
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| 3.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for
my sake. (Aristotle) |
| 4.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Aristotle) |
5.
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary
effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
(Francis Bacon) |
| 6.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another (Eustace Budgell) |
7.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with
them.
All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion
they have of
themselves. (Albert Camus) |
8.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for
truth at
any cost is a passion which spares nothing. (Albert Camus) |
| 9.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.
(Charles Caleb Colton) |
10.
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be
by-and-by.
Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier
we
shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about
friendship. (George Eliot) |
| 11.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) |
12.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford
to be
stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| 13.
The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
14.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends. (Euripedes) |
15.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we
know they
won't save us any more than love did. (F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
16.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend
till he
is unhappy. (Thomas Fuller) |
| 17.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes
you. (Elbert Hubbard) |
18.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got
five real
friends, you've had a great life. (Lee Iacocca) |
19.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which
we take
the least care of all to acquire. (François Duc de La
Rochefoucauld) |
| 20.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
(François Duc de La Rochefoucauld) |
