The only way to have a friend is to be one
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

you can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

a simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life. Real friend says, what’s new with you?
--Unknown

a simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book
--Unknown

I get by with a little help from my friends.
--John Lennon

Friends are God's way of taking care of us. If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
--Stone Temple Pilots

if all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
--Tim McGraw

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare and he who have one enemy will meet him everywhere.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
--Mencius

everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
--Unknown

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
--Anais Nin

everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.
--Unknown

your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
--Elbert Hubbard

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
--Mary Catherwood

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
--Unknown

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
--Cher

The best mirror is an old friend.
--George Herbert

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
--Wilson Mizner

this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubled joy, and cute griefs in half.
--Francis Bacon

the most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
--Henry David Thoreau

Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.
--Unknown

Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
--Elbert Hubbard

everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
--Jean de La Fontaine

Dear George, Remember no man's a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings. Love, Clarence
--Clarence, the angel It's a Wonderful Life

Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
--American Proverb

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

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

if you were somebody else, would you want to be friends with you?
--Unknown

are we going to be friends forever? Asked Piglet. Even longer, Pooh answered.
--A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh

The best vitamin for making friends is B-1.
--Unknown

we really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
--Unknown

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
--Moliere (1622-1672)

nothing makes the earth seem as spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.
--Henry David Thoreau

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
--Saint Augustine Roman religious figure and philosopher

a friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
--Walter Winchell

don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
--Albert Camus

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
--Charles Caleb Colton

My friends are my estate.
--Emily Dickinson

two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their lab our. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
--Bible: Ecclesiastes

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
--Mary Catherwood

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
--C. S. Lewis

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
--Logan Pearsall Smith

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
--Abraham Lincoln

the greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.
--Benjamin Disraeli

Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background.
--Claudette Renner