• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
  - Saint Teresa of Avila
• Friends are thieves of time. - Francis Bacon
• Friends Are Treasures - Horace Bruns
• Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. - Erica Mann Jong
• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
  - Thomas Fuller
• Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana
• If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. - Alice Duer Miller
• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte
• One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. - Henry Brooks Adams
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. - Joseph Addison
• Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. - Joseph Addison
• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. - Joseph Addison
• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
  - Joseph Addison
• Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. - Amos Bronson Alcott
• Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. - Louisa May Alcott
• A faithful friend is the medicine of life. - Apocrypha
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. - St. Thomas Aquinas
• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. - Pietro Aretino
• One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. - Henry Brooks Adams
  
  
  

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