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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
-Samuel Butler
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
-Samuel Butler
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When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
-Samuel Butler
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
-James F. Byrnes
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
-Albert Camus
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-Albert Camus
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Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
-George Canning
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
-Truman Capote
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
-Oswald Chambers
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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My friends, there are no friends.
-Coco Chanel
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
-William Ellery Channing
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
-Agatha Christie
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
-Jennie Jerome Churchill
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Books about Friends
