Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favours for big ones.

- Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

Platonic friendship: The interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

- Sophie Irene Loeb

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

- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

- George Santayana

For a friend that one loves seven verst is close by.

- Russian proverb (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy)

The true neighbour will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

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 W. Howe (1853-1937)

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

Friends---lovers that might have been.

- Robert Browning

We are old friends now, united in that unchangeable friendship which is born and cemented amidst extreme dangers.

- Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Fair weather friends are not worth much.

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.

Equals make the best friends.

We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.

It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?'

No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or distrust him.

- All above from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend

A bosom friend--an intimate friend, you know--a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

When twilight drops her curtain down
And pins it with a star
Remember that you have a friend
Though she may wander far.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

...my heart swelled with pride to think you were my dearest friend.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

It may be hard work sometimes, but a friend's hand and voice make it easy.

- Anna Sewell [English Quaker -- 1820-1878.] (Black Beauty)

`I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?'

- Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

(He) was surely an excellent friend. He took an interest in you. He asked no idle questions and made no vague professions; but he entered into your situation, he examined it in detail, and what he learned he never forgot.

- Henry James - Confidence

... meanwhile we should be good friends. We should take time to know each other better and act in accordance with further knowledge.

- Henry James - Confidence

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends--those were the fascinating things in life.

- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation.

- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

The more firmly fixed became the realisation that the girl's friendship had meant so much to me, the more I came to miss it;

- Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core

Remember the friends around you, who centre all their hopes in you.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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