The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,
And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,
For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,
And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.
   -- Anonymous See more friendship sms messages.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
   -- Anonymous

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.
   -- Anonymous

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
   -- Ambrose Bierce

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
   -- William Blake

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
   -- James F. Byrnes

Give me one friend, just one, who meets
The needs of all my varying moods.
   -- Esther M. Clark

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
   -- Benjamin Disraeli

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

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.
   -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
   -- Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
   -- David Grayson

Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
   -- Elbert Hubbard

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
   -- Thomas Jefferson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
   -- Samuel Johnson

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
   -- Abraham Lincoln

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
   -- Golda Meir

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
   -- Mencius

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
   -- Wilson Mizner

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

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
   -- Austin O'Malley

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
   -- William Butler Yeats

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
   -- Louisa May Alcott

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
   -- Amanda Bradley

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
   -- Charlotte Bronte

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
   -- Helen Gurley Brown

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
   -- Pearl S. Buck

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
   -- Shirley Maclaine

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
   -- Nancy Reagan

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
   -- Eleanor Roosevelt

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
   -- Chinese Proverb

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
   -- Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon

There is nought better than to be with noble souls in company.
   -- Mahabharata (Indian epic poem)

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
   -- Bernard Meltzer

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
   -- {Proverbs 17:17}

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
   -- Goethe

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
   -- Warren G. Harding

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
   -- George Washington

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
   -- Thomas Jones

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
   -- Baltasar Gracian

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
   -- Dame Edna Everage

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
   -- Katharine Butler Hathaway

Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.
   -- D'Hericault

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
   -- Robert Hall

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
   -- Edgar Watson Howe

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b
   -- William James

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
   -- Robert Lynd

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
   -- C. C. Colton

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
   -- George Eliot

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
   -- William Blake

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
   -- John Burrough

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow
   -- Phillips Brooks

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
   -- Anonymous

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.
   -- Henry H. Haskins

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
   -- Anonymous

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
   -- Joseph Addison

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
   -- Jean De La Bruyere

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
   -- Richard Burton

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.
   -- Janet Sorensen

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
   -- Virginia Woolf

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
   -- Laurie Colwin

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
   -- Katherine Mansfield

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
   -- Henry Ford

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
   -- Charles Dudley Warner

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
   -- Anonymous