He that has many friends, has no friends.
All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or perhaps, against the interest of others; so that an old Greek said, "He that has friends has no friend.
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.
Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
A true friend is tested in adversity.
Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.
I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals.
Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
