I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
~ Blaise Pascal
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.
~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.
~ Robert Brault
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~ Mencius
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
~ E.W. Howe
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ~Emil Ludwig
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. ~ Edith Wharton
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~ Robert Brault
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
~ Unknown
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
~ Anäis Nin