Friendship

(106 votes)   It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverbs

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(105 votes)   An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(104 votes)   A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

B. A. Billingsly

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(103 votes)   Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

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(103 votes)   Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(103 votes)   It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer

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(103 votes)   There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(102 votes)   The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome

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(102 votes)   The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha
568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

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(100 votes)   ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(100 votes)   Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(99 votes)   A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(99 votes)   But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(99 votes)   Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(99 votes)   Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Warren Gamaliel Harding

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