Some views on friendship:
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -- Dave Tyson Gentry
A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed. -- Frank McKinney Hubbard ("Kin Hubbard")
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. -- Laurence J. Peter
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. -- Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places. -- Mark Twain
Friendship among women is only a suspension of hostilities. -- Comte de Rivarol (1753-1801)
A woman is never quite so old as her dearest friend says she is. -- Dr Laurence J. Peter
He's the kind of man who picks his friends -- to pieces. -- Mae West
With friends such as these, who needs enemies? -- Author unknown.
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. -- Ed Howe
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. -- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. -- Samuel Pepys (1632-1703)
There are no strangers here -- only friends we have not met. -- Author unkknown.
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. -- Louise Beal
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. -- Duo de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Platonic friendship: The interval between the introduction and the first kiss. -- Sophie Irene Loeb
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. -- George Jean Nathan
The truth that is supressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through. -- Author unknown
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. -- Evelyn Waugh
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible -- Henry Adams
There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends and pest friends. -- Author unknown
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. -- Chinese Proverb
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Friendships, like marriages, are dependant on avoiding the unforgivable. -- John D. MacDonald
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. -- Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two. -- Norman Douglas
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. -- George Santayana
In politics . . . shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. -- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. -- Frankfort Moore
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. -- Bertrand Russell
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Against a foe I can myself defend, --
But Heaven protect me from a blundering friend! -- D'Aarcy W. Thompson
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. -- David Storey
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible. -- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850),
He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front. -- Leonard Louis Levinson