Idea Book
Friendship

Best Buddies

Friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there  Hulali Lut

While everyone else shakes my hand, you my heart  A.A. Milne

Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones  Yiddish proverb

Friends have all things in common  Greek proverb

One friend in a life is much, two are many, three are hardly possible  Henry Brooks Adams

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us  Epicurus

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away  Wilson Mizner

Keep your friendships in repair  Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am wealthy in my friends  William Shakespeare

A friend is a gift you give yourself  Robert Louis Stevenson

To a friend's house the road is never long  Dutch proverb

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss  Seneca

God save me from my friends.  I can protect myself from my enemies.  Marshal de Villars

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends  Jacques DeLille

If you have one true friend you have more than your share  Thomas Fuller

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend  Henry David Thoreau

Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art  Cervantes

Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you  Lord Chesterfield

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult  Epictetus

The dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs  Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no better looking-glass than an old friend  Thomas Fuller

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first  Thomas Jefferson

Never injure a friend, even in jest  Cicero

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes  Thomas Jefferson

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never  Charles C. Colton

Friends, though absent, are still present  Cicero

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions  Samuel Johnson

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom  Marcel Proust

Man's best support is a very dear friend  Cicero

Your wealth is where your friends are  Plautus

One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness  William E. Holler

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life  Mark Twain

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together  Woodrow Wilson

Friends are the sunshine of life  John Hay

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends  Merry Browne

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship  Francis Bacon

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship  Cicero

He does good to himself who does good to his friend  Erasmus

The only way to have a friend is to be one  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends  George Washington

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles  George Eliot

Friendship requires great communication  Saint Francis de Sales

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do  Quintus Ennius

A true friend is the best possession  anonymous

No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands  Arthur H. Stainback

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue  Izaak Walton

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable  Dave Tyson Gentry

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it  Dagobert D. Runes

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them  Evelyn Waugh

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities  William Shakespeare