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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.

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

Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.