If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
E. Stanley Jones

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
Bill Vaughan

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
John Travolta

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
Kevin Bacon

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King Solomon

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
King Solomon

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Homer

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Homer

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard