Friends are born, not made.
– Henry Adams
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
– Benjamin Franklin
Friends are the best to turn to when you’re having a rough day.
– Justin Bieber
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
– Confucius
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
– Baltasar Gracian
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
– Abraham Lincoln
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
– Thomas A. Edison
My friends are my estate.
– Emily Dickinson
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
– Baltasar Gracian
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
– Sophocles
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
– Saint Augustine
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
– Euripides
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
– Shirley MacLaine
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
– Taylor Swift
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
– Alice Walker
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
– King Solomon
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 is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
– Charles Eastman
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 Miller
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
– Giotto di Bondone
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
– Katherine Mansfield
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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.
– Laurence J. Peter
