Love gives itself; it is not bought.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
- Anonymous

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
- Joseph F. Newton

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
- Antoine Rivarol

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
- Elbert Hubbard

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
- John-Baptiste Lacordaire

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC)

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
- François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know that they won't save us any more than love did.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

If you would have friends, first learn to do without them.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

I do then with my friends, as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
- English proverb

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
- François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet - perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the Candid Friend.

- George Canning (1770-1827)

A sudden thought strikes me; - let us swear an eternal friendship.
- John Hookham Frere (1769-1846)

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington (1732-1799)

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it could only be explained by answering: "Because it was him; because it was me."
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Men seem to kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it as glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (b. 1906)

Oh, the pious friendships of the female sex!
- William Congreve (1670-1729)

The endearing elegance of female friendship.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Friendship is Love, without his wings!
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Love is only chatter, Friends are all that matter.
- Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
- Charles Bukowski (b. 1920)

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- anonymous

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
- Orson Welles (1915-1985)

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Greek proverb

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.
- Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566)

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

I'm lonesome. They are all dying. I have hardly a warm personal enemy left.
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

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