We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Without friends no one would choose to live.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. GeorgeMore [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

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.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]