A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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