Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Charles Alexander Eastman
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. Virginia Woolf
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. King Solomon
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett
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
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Baltasar Gracian
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Joseph Brodsky
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