Friendship

• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
• Keep your friendships in repair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson
• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. — Samuel Johnson
• It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. — François Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. — François Duc La Rochefoucauld
• It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. — Epicurus
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. — Euripides
• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together — Woodrow Wilson
• ... no man is useless while he has a friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. — Anonymous
• To know someone here or there with whom you feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed—that can make of this earth a garden. — Johann Volfgang von Goethe
• We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
• One friend in a life is much, two are many, three hardly possible. — Henry Brooks Adams
• Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Bible, John 15:13
• Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. —George Eliot