I had a friend. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Oblige a friend. [ Stobaeus ]

Be a friend to peace. [ Talmud ]

A friend is another 1. [ Zeno ]

Night is virtue's friend. [ E. Young ]

An old friend is the best. [ Gratian ]

God's friend, priest's foe. [ German Proverb ]

A rich friend is a treasure. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom - a man's best friend. [ Gladstone ]

An old friend is a new house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The night is no man's friend. [ Baron Grimm ]

We can never replace a friend. [ Schleiermacher ]

Poverty is a friend to health. [ Proverb ]

For his friend is another self. [ Aristotle ]

Save me from the candid friend. [ George Canning ]

The advice of a friend is good. [ Homer ]

No friend like a friend in need. [ Proverb ]

Better lose a jest than a friend. [ Proverb ]

The wide world is all before us -
But a world without a friend. [ Burns ]

The best mirror is an old friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Innocence has a friend in heaven. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

O music, sphere descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid. [ Collins ]

The law is the friend of the weak. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

No longer foster no longer friend. [ Proverb ]

When the ruler is obedient to God,
God is his protector and friend. [ Saadi ]

A true friend is forever a friend. [ George MacDonald ]

Every one that flatters thee,
Is no friend in misery;
Words are easy, like the wind,
Faithful friends are hard to find. [ Shakespeare ]

Milk says to wine, Welcome, friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A day for toil, an hour for sport.
But for a friend is life too short. [ Emerson ]

Lose thy fun rather than thy friend. [ Proverb ]

I've often wished that I had clear.
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land, set out to plant a wood. [ Swift ]

A friend in need is a friend indeed. [ Proverb ]

A friend is never known till needed. [ Proverb ]

A friend to all is a friend to none. [ Proverb ]

Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed be lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ John Dryden ]

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]

A good friend is my nearest relation. [ Proverb ]

Hearts only thrive on varied good;
And he who gathers from a host
Of friendly hearts his daily food,
Is the best friend that we can boast. [ Holland ]

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out
With everything, its friend, itself. [ Addison ]

The rich knows not who is his friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A reconciled friend is a double enemy. [ Proverb ]

Fortune, my friend, I've often thought
Is weak, if Art assist her not:
So equally all Arts are vain,
If Fortune help them not again. [ Sheridan ]

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port - heaven -
Friend, what years could us divide? [ D. M. Mulock ]

The way to gain a friend is to be one. [ Michelet ]

Loan oft loses both itself and friend. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Friend more divine than all divinities. [ George Eliot ]

The bit that one eats, no friend makes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A book is a friend that never deceives. [ Pixerecourt ]

The greatest medicine is a true friend. [ Sir W. Temple ]

He is my friend that grinds at my mill. [ Proverb ]

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]

A friend's eye is a good looking-glass. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

O death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest! [ Burns ]

By requiting one friend we invite many. [ Proverb ]

Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe and a suspicious friend. [ Pope ]

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. [ Shakespeare ]

Quackery has no friend like gullibility. [ Proverb ]

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. [ Aristotle ]

He makes no friend who never made a foe. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Excess of obligations may lose a friend. [ Proverb ]

A good friend is life's best inheritance. [ Albert II. of Germany ]

Poor is the friendless master of a world:
A world in purchase for a friend is gain. [ Dr. Young ]

Integrity of life is fame's best .friend. [ John Webster ]

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;
Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. [ Young ]

He that wrongs his friend
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

A friend is worth all hazards we can run. [ Young ]

A brother is a friend provided by nature. [ Legouvé père ]

Keep thy friend under thy own life's key. [ William Shakespeare ]

A foe to God was never true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does. [ Young ]

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude;
But grant me still a friend in my retreat.
Whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet. [ Cowper ]

When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A friend in court makes the process short. [ Proverb ]

No atheist, as such, can be a true friend. [ Bentley ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

He was my friend, faithful and just to me. [ Jul. Caes ]

Silence is a friend that will never betray. [ Confucius ]

Choose a book as you would choose a friend.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest. [ Syrus ]

The only way to have a friend is to he one. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

My library is a friend of a thousand years. [ Kyo-Sya ]

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine! [ Emerson ]

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. [ Confucius ]

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! [ Longfellow ]

Detraction is the sworn friend to ignorance. [ John Webster ]

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. [ Vaughan ]

Friends I have made, whom envy must commend.
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. [ Churchill ]

And choose an author as you choose a friend. [ Wentworth Dillon ]

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. [ Proverb ]

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of every friend - and every foe. [ Pope ]

We must love our friend with all his defects. [ Italian Proverb ]

Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. [ Seneca ]

Few there are that will endure a true friend. [ Proverb ]

Rather spoil your joke than tine your friend. [ Proverb ]

Alas! today I would give everything
To see a friend's face, or hear a voice
That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

We cannot enjoy a friend here.
If we are to meet it is beyond the grave.
How much of our soul a friend takes with him!
We half die in him. [ William Ellery Channing ]

'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend. [ Southerne ]

He's a friend to none that is a friend to all. [ Proverb ]

Suffering for a friend doubles the friendship. [ Proverb ]

Who ceases to be a friend, never was a friend.

But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And all his prospects bright'ning to the last,
His heaven commences, ere the world be past! [ Goldsmith ]

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,
Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. [ Juvenal ]

Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend;
The conscious moon, through every distant age.
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. [ Young ]

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. [ Goldsmith ]

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. [ Shakspeare ]

Many humble servants have not one true friend. [ Proverb ]

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. [ Proverb ]

Old wine and an old friend are good provisions. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. [ Syrus ]

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

He loses nothing that keeps God for his friend. [ Proverb ]

That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]

To go through fire and water to serve a friend. [ Proverb ]

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]

Life without a friend is death with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice;
Nor jealous of the chosen; fixing, fix;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. [ Young ]

A faithful friend in the true image of the Deity. [ Napoleon I ]

No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Life without a friend is death without a witness. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. [ Dryden ]

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. [ Madame Swetchine ]

I will be your friend, but not your vices' friend. [ Proverb ]

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mine own could not retain. [ Massinger ]

A friend in court is as good as a penny in pocket. [ Proverb ]

Some had rather lose their friend than their jest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. [ Proverb ]

A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend. [ Proverb ]

One true friend is better than a hundred relations. [ Italian Proverb ]

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. [ Solon ]

An honest and diligent servant is an humble friend. [ Proverb ]

He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one. [ Proverb ]

A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find. [ Plutarch ]

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear.
Your birthday as my own to me is dear.
Blest and distinguish'd days! which we should prize
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend,
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. [ Martial ]

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. [ Lavater ]

There is no better looking-glass than an old friend. [ Proverb ]

God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults. [ Proverb ]

O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more
Than the impending night darkens the landscape over. [ Longfellow ]

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. [ Proverb ]

Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. [ Lavater ]

Cannot I be your friend, but I must be your fool too? [ Proverb ]

He quits his place well that leaves his friend there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing more friendly than a friend in need. [ Plautus ]

Women sometimes deceive the lover - never the friend. [ L. S. Mercier ]

A good friend is worth more than a hundred relations. [ French Proverb ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

A true friend dares sometimes venture to be offensive. [ Proverb ]

Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside. [ Longfellow ]

Oh! he thou blest with all that Heaven can send.
Long health, long youth, long pleasure - and a friend. [ Pope ]

Death is the only trustworthy friend of the miserable.

Wine is a turncoat: first a friend, and then an enemy. [ Fielding ]

A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in dark days. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Live with your friend as if he might become your enemy. [ Proverb ]

No friend to a bosom friend; no enemy to a bosom enemy. [ Proverb ]

Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not. [ Bible ]

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived by him. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He is my friend that succours me, not he that pities me. [ Proverb ]

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. [ Scotch Proverb ]

A friend in the market is better than money in the chest. [ Proverb ]

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. [ Addison ]

As a wolf is like a dog, so is a flatterer like a friend. [ Proverb ]

The greatest pleasure in life is the society of a friend. [ Mayo ]

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. [ Proverb ]

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. [ Moses Harvey ]

A new friend is sometimes only a troublesome acquaintance. [ James Ellis ]

If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of honest men. [ Proverb ]

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. [ Sir W. Temple ]

A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend. [ Proverb ]

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. [ Colton ]

He who slights a friend will soon have no friends to slight. [ Duwad ]

A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you. [ Proverb ]

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend. [ Swift ]

He who is wanting but to one friend loses a great many by it. [ Proverb ]

There is no more hold of a new friend, than of a new fashion. [ Proverb ]

When a knave is in a plum tree he hath neither friend nor kin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Some will rather lose their best friend than their worst joke. [ Proverb ]

It is almost as easy to find a true diamond, as a true friend. [ Proverb ]

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home? [ Proverb ]

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work. [ Auerbach ]

Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is no better relation than a prudent and faithful friend. [ Franklin ]

Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. [ Lessing ]

There's not so much danger in a known foe as a suspected friend. [ Nabb ]

It is easier to preserve a friend, than to recover him when lost. [ Proverb ]

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. [ Stanislaus ]

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. [ Syrus ]

He who cannot counterfeit a friend can never be a very bad enemy. [ Proverb ]

Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. [ Fuller ]

A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort; but a friend is both. [ Proverb ]

A friend loveth at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. [ Bible ]

Death! to the happy thou art terrible;
But how the wretched love to think of thee,
O thou true comforter! the friend of all Who have no friend beside! [ Southey ]

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has, a friend. [ W. R, Alger ]

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [ Addison ]

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention. [ Colton ]

You will never have a friend if you must have one without failings. [ Proverb ]

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share comes to. [ Proverb ]

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. [ Socrates ]

Know this, that he that is a friend of himself is a friend to all men. [ Seneca ]

Then came your new friend: you began to change - I saw it and grieved. [ Tennyson ]

Trust no friend with that you need; fear him as if he were your enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little. [ Proverb ]

All things should be common between friends. Our friend is another self. [ Pythagoras ]

The words of a friend joined with true affection, give life to the heart. [ Chilo ]

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Descend a step in choosing thy wife; ascend a step in choosing thy friend. [ The Talmud ]

He's a friend at a sneeze; the most you can get of him is a God bless you. [ Proverb ]

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. [ Proverb ]

He who has neither friend, nor enemy, is without talents, powers, or energy. [ Lavater ]

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path. [ Scandinavian proverb ]

No friend like to a bosom friend, as the man said when he pulled out a louse. [ Proverb ]

We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend. [ Franklin ]

The cause of a friend, a destitute and an exemplary cause, we ought to defend. [ Thrasea ]

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. [ Lacretelle ]

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. [ Thomas Fuller ]

A faithful friend is better than gold; a medicine of misery, an only possession. [ Miss L. Barton ]

He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

Be kind to my remains; and O defend Against your judgment, your departed friend. [ Dryden ]

Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. [ Cyrus ]

The best receipt - best to work and best to take - is the admonition of a friend. [ Bacon ]

Good-bye, proud world; I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. [ Emerson ]

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book. [ Amos Bronson Alcott ]

Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows. [ Jean Paul ]

Happy he who finds a friend; without that second self one lives but half of life. [ Chenedolle ]

Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.

It is better to have one friend of great value, than many friends of little value. [ Anaxarchus ]

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. [ Proverb ]

A friend is a being that is willing to bear with us in all our faults and failings. [ G. Forster ]

Friend, beware of fair maidens! When their tenderness begins, our servitude is near. [ Victor Hugo ]

Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. [ La Fontaine ]

I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. [ Bacon ]

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary. [ Plautus ]

Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not with him in haste. [ Solon ]

A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult. [ Epictetus ]

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

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. [ Pope ]

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew that he might one day become your enemy. [ Laberius ]

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need. [ Plutarch ]

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. [ N. Hawthorne ]

A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift. [ William Ellery Channing ]

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter.
O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. [ Saadi ]

Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns. [ Feltham ]

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. [ Saadi ]

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise - a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. [ Thackeray ]

It is better to sacrifice one's love of sarcasm than to indulge it at the expense of a friend.

A kinsman, a friend, or whom you entreat, take not to serve you, if you will be served neatly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A friend that you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be. [ George D. Prentice ]

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. [ Joubert ]

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. [ La Fontaine ]

Religion is no friend to laziness and stupidity, or to supine and sottish despondencies of mind. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend. [ Joseph Roux ]

We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. [ Bovee ]

It ill corresponds with a profession of friendship to refuse assistance to a friend in time of need. [ G. Crabb ]

Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired; it is to be found in the house of a friend. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Cheerfulness is the friend and helper of all good graces, and the absence of it is certainly a vice. [ Aughey ]

Never apologize for showing feeling. My friend, remember that when you do so you apologize for truth. [ Beaconsfield ]

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. [ Martial ]

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. [ L'Estrange ]

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. [ Sophocles ]

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. [ W. R. Alger ]

Do good to your friend, that he may be more wholly yours; to your enemy, that he may become your friend. [ Cleobulus ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend: but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. [ Epictetus ]

We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him, saying, A man is born. [ Beecher ]

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

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend. [ George MacDonald ]

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. [ Fenélon ]

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He who loses wealth, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; but he that loses his courage, loses all. [ Cervantes ]

The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Friend, howsoever thou earnest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it. [ Bunyan ]

Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

Enough for me a nook by a hearth of my own, a good book, a friend, a short sleep, unburdened by debt and sorrow. [ Rioja ]

It is pleasant to enjoy good fortune with one's friends; but if any ill befall, a friend's kind eye beams comfort. [ Euripides ]

Life sues the young like a new acquaintance.... To us, who are declined in years, life appears like an old friend. [ Goldsmith ]

It is easy to find a lover and to retain a friend: what is difficult is to find the friend and to retain the lover. [ Levis ]

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. [ Southey ]

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension. [ Plutarch ]

The beloved friend does not fill one part of the soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes connected with all feeling. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. [ Hume ]

The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear, and not disgrace, his apotheosis of him. [ Thoreau ]

Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

Learn to dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes more freely than thou. [ Bürger ]

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]

A friend gilds the scene of life with sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. [ T. L. O'Beirne ]

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. [ Barrow ]

Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. [ Carlyle ]

I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. [ Fitzosborne ]

One faithful friend is enough for a man's self; it is much to meet with such a one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. [ De Bruyere ]

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Lord Bacon ]

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend. [ Cicero ]

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. [ Cicero ]

I'll give thrice so much land. To any well deserving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. [ Horace ]

To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. [ Addison ]

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Nothing is more common than to talk of a friend; nothing more difficult than to find one; nothing more rare than to improve one as we ought. [ Henry A. Oakley ]

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. [ Sirach ]

Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. [ South ]

We always make our friend appear awkward and ridiculous by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications, which nature never intended him to wear. [ Junius ]

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it iodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. [ Bias ]

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels must give. [ George Macdonald ]

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. [ Sarah Ellis ]

To wither away, be disleaved, be trodden to dust even by the rude feet of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything that is beautiful and sweet. [ Heine ]

Leave a friend! So base I am not. I followed him in his prosperity, when the skies were clear and shining, and will not leave him when storms begin to rise. [ Metastasio ]

To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

Famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back; The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. [ William Shakespeare ]

Is thy friend angry with thee? Then provide him an opportunity of showing thee a great favor. Over that his heart must needs melt, and he will love thee again. [ Richter ]

There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend, as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others. [ Sir W. Scott ]

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart. [ Ennius ]

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly; if you can not have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good. [ W. M. Thackeray ]

The attempt to make one false impression on the mind of a friend respecting ourselves is of the nature of perfidy. Sincerity should be observed most scrupulously. [ William Ellery Channing ]

When danger threats, the friend comes forth resolved and shields his friend; in fortune's golden smile what need of friends? Her favoring power wants no auxiliary. [ Euripides ]

Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Wanting to have a friend is altogether different from wanting to be a friend. The former is a mere natural human craving, the latter is the life of Christ in the soul. [ J. R. Miller ]

A true friend embraces our objects as his own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying it, ensuring it, reflecting it, and delighting in our devotion to it. [ William Ellery Channing ]

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. [ Quarles ]

The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. [ South ]

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. [ Beaconsfield ]

A misanthrope was told of a young friend of his: Your friend has no experience of the world; he knows nothing about it. True; but he is already as sad as if he knew all about it.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. [ Goldsmith ]

A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it; he must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. [ Jeremy Collier ]

A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings. [ William Ellery Channing ]

A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction, will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own. [ William Ellery Channing ]

I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle and broken it and put all the pieces in his bosom where they were cutting him perpetually. [ H. W. Beecher ]

A friend is a rare book, of which but one copy is made. We read a page of it every day, till some woman snatches it from our hands, who sometimes peruses it, but more frequently tears it.

Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. [ R. South ]

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. [ Andrew Lang ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us and delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases. [ William Ellery Channing ]

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. [ Spurgeon ]

He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend. [ Saadi ]

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. [ Colton ]

It is better to decide a difference between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of our enemies will probably become our friend. [ Bias ]

No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. [ Percival ]

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. [ Saadi ]

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection. [ Willmott ]

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. [ Plutarch ]

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us. [ Plutarch ]

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face, - compare notes and chat the hour away. [ Hazlitt ]

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend, - this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts. [ Hawthorne ]

Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds. A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position. [ G. A. Sala ]

Friendship is not a state of feeling whose elements are specifically different from those which compose every other. The emotions we feel toward a friend are the same in kind with those we experience on other occasions; but they are more complex and more exalted. [ R. Hall ]

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself, is also a friend to mankind; even in my studies the greatest delight I take is that of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner. [ Seneca ]

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. [ Pilpay ]

Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age. The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason; and the art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and readers wise enough to read. [ Colton ]

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal. So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]

In the hour of distress and misery, the eye of every mortal turns to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? My friend. [ W. S. Landor ]

The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]

Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend; and when thy impartial judgment concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his; he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. [ F. Quarles ]

The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incorporate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. [ J. Bartlett ]

Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature, - may almost say, I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now. [ Leigh Hunt ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]

A woman at middle age retains nothing of the pettiness of youth; she is a friend who gives you all the feminine delicacies, who displays all the graces, all the prepossessions which Nature has given to woman to please man, but who no longer sells these qualities. She is hateful or lovable, according to her pretensions to youth, whether they exist under the epidermis or whether they are dead. [ Balzac ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]

It is good for any man to be alone with nature and himself, or with a friend who knows when silence is more sociable than talk, In the wilderness alone, there where nature worships God. It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great, where what he sees all around him has the same look as it had a thousand years ago, and will have the same, in all likelihood, when he has been a thousand years in his grave. It abates and rectifies a man, if he is worth the process. [ Sydney Smith ]