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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson

Scientist · American · 1874 – 1956

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas More

Author · English · 1478 – 1535

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Writer · American · 1809 – 1894

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Brigham Young

Leader · American · 1801 – 1877

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

Ismail Merchant

Producer · Indian · 1936 – 2005

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Keith Henson

Scientist · American

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader · 1890 – 1970

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

Walter Winchell

Journalist · American · 1897 – 1972

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

James Boswell

Lawyer · Scottish · 1740 – 1795

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Friedrich Schiller

Dramatist · German · 1759 – 1805

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Carl Sandburg

Poet · American · 1878 – 1967

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Thomas Fuller

Clergyman · English · 1608 – 1661

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Edward Young

Poet · English · 1683 – 1765

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

George MacDonald

Novelist · Scottish · 1824 – 1905

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

Chris Matthews

Journalist · American · b. 1945

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

Andrew Jackson

President · American · 1767 – 1845

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Clergyman · American · 1878 – 1969

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

President · American · 1809 – 1865

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

David Geffen

Businessman · American · b. 1943

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Author · American · b. 1944

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Jim Ramstad

Politician · American · b. 1946

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

Anatoly Chubais

Politician · Russian · b. 1955

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Politician · American · 1911 – 1978

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Sarah Palin

Politician · American · b. 1964

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Hector Hugh Munro

Novelist · British · 1870 – 1916

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Louisa May Alcott

Novelist · American · 1832 – 1888

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

William Blake

Poet · English · 1757 – 1827

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Hilaire Belloc

Poet · English · 1870 – 1953

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen

Novelist · Irish · 1899 – 1973

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher · German · 1788 – 1860

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Anatole Broyard

Critic · American · 1920 – 1990

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Lord Chesterfield

Statesman · British · b. 1694

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

Keith Henson

Scientist · American

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Tecumseh

Leader · American · d. 1813

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Hilaire Belloc

Poet · English · 1870 – 1953

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

Writer · American · 1783 – 1859

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean de La Fontaine

Poet · French · 1621 – 1695

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Samuel Rutherford

Theologian · Scottish

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

James Boswell

Lawyer · Scottish · 1740 – 1795

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Philosopher · Greek

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947

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