Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
Never deceive a friend.
—Hipparchus (c.180–125 BCE) Greek Astronomer, Mathematician
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
—Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85) American Civil War General, Head of State
You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
—August Strindberg (1849–1912) Swedish Playwright, Novelist, Essayist
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
—Doug Larson (1926–2017) American Columnist
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
—Frank Hall Crane (1873–1948) American Stage and Film Actor, Director
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Friendship is the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
—Nahum Tate (1652–1715) Irish Poet, Dramatist
Two friends—two bodies with one soul inspired.
—Homer (751–651 BCE) Ancient Greek Poet
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
—William Cowper (1731–1800) English Anglican Poet, Hymn writer
A good friend is worth pursuing… but why would a good friend be running away?
—Ashleigh Brilliant (b.1933) British Cartoonist, Author
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
—The Dhammapada Buddhist Anthology of Verses
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best; they are merely the people who got there first.
—Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) British Actor, Playwright, Director
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.—The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
—Robert E. Lee (1807–70) Confederate General during American Civil War
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American Poet, Journalist
Everybody needs one essential friend.
—William Glasser (b.1925) American Psychiatrist, Writer
To keep a new friend, never break with the old.
—Russian Proverb
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
My friends, there are no friends.
—Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French Fashion Designer
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
A friend loveth at all times.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith