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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Thomas Fuller

Clergyman · English · 1608 – 1661

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

Donald Cargill

Clergyman · Scottish

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey

Author · American · 1927 – 1989

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer

Poet · Greek

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

President · American · 1743 – 1826

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

Brian Mulroney

Statesman · Canadian · b. 1939

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

John McCain

Politician · American · b. 1936

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Edward Koch

Politician · American · b. 1924

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

Jeremy Taylor

Clergyman · British · d. 1667

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Izaak Walton

Writer · English · 1593 – 1683

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

L. Neil Smith

Writer · American · b. 1946

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Len Wein

Cartoonist · American · b. 1948

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carl Sandburg

Poet · American · 1878 – 1967

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Bill Watterson

Cartoonist · American · b. 1958

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Ben Okri

Poet · Nigerian · b. 1959

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

George Will

Journalist · b. 1941

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

Daniel Okrent

Editor · American · b. 1948

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Ann Landers

Journalist · American · 1918 – 2002

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

Poet · Greek

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Richard Bach

Novelist · American · b. 1936

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Judge · American · 1841 – 1935

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Philosopher · Greek

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

Lionel Blue

Clergyman · British · b. 1930

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

Donald E. Westlake

Writer · American · b. 1933

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

Sociologist · American · 1895 – 1990

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Cesar Chavez

Activist · American · 1927 – 1993

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Historian · Roman

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

Philosopher · Greek

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

Poet · Irish · 1865 – 1939

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Cyril Connolly

Journalist · English · 1903 – 1974

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Poet · Greek

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

Annie Leibovitz

Photographer · American · b. 1949

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

Theologian · Scottish · 1874 – 1917

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Douglas Horton

Clergyman · American · 1891 – 1968

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

Poet · English · 1774 – 1843

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman

Author · Sioux · 1858 – 1939

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou

Clergyman · American · b. 1771

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Yitzhak Rabin

Statesman · Israeli · 1922 – 1995

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Austin O'Malley

Physicist · American

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Zig Ziglar

Author · American · b. 1926

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

Tom Brokaw

Journalist · American · b. 1940

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

John Webster

Playwright · English

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