"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible." - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune." - Aeschylus

"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers

"Friends are thieves of time." - Francis Bacon

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends." - Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

"There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?

"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends." - Cicero

"What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine." - Cicero

"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." - Cicero

"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Cicero, De Amicitia

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself." - Confucius

"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." - E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy

"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world." - William Hazlitt, Characteristics

"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative." - Henry Louis Mencken

"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." - Blaise Pascal, Penseés

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots." - George Santayana

"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." - Henry David Thoreau

"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." - Evelyn Waugh

"Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha

"Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Representative Men

"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." - IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler

"When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. Friends are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes." - MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON, Commonplace Book

"Fate makes our relatives, choice makes our friends." - JACQUES DELILLE, Malheur et piti

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Friendship

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Friendship

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends."
- W.B. YEATS, The Municipal Gallery Revisited

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." - Bach, Richard

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." - Darwin, Charles

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"He who would be friends with God must remain alone or make the whole world his friend." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)

"Joys divided are increased." - Holland, Josia Gilbert

"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)

"I have no sustained relationship with any person whom I've met only by and through E-mail.... I uncharitably speculate that it's because I already have a life." - Sterling, Bruce

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you." - Tensin, Madame de

"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." - Unknown

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Winchell, Walter