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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Sep 10, 2025
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
I've said consistently, the advice I give to Donald is to Donald [Trump]. And that's based upon our friendship over the last 14 years and the way I would expect to.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
Some friends leave footprints in your heart
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Your friend is your needs answered.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.