You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
~ Woodrow Wilson
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.
~ G. K. Chesterton
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.
~ Aristotle
The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
~ Molière
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
~ Goethe
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
~ Henry Adams
When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.
~ Joseph Joubert
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.
~ Joseph Conrad
God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.
~ Marshall De Villars
Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
~ Robert C. Edwards
Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Iron sharpeneth man so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
~ Bible
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
~ George Jean Nathan
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
~ George Santayana
Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.
~ John Gay
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.
~ Jacques Delille
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich
True friendship is never serene.
~ Marie De Rabutin-Chantal
In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times however avoid friends who sympathize too deeply who give us pity rather than strength.
~ D. Lupton
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
~ Susan Ferrier
Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
~ Richard Graves
In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.
~ Greek Proverb
A friend is never known till a man has need.
~ Anonymous
As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
~ Ovid
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.
~ John Dryden
He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.
~ Malik Muhammad Jayasi
A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
~ Eliza Cook
There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.
~ Honoré De Balzac
Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.
~ Publilius Syrus
