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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.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Friends are treasures.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

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.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.