Thucydides on Friendship
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thomas Jones on Friendship
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Fuller on Friendship
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Socrates on Friendship
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Samuel Johnson on Friendship
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Sallust on Friendship
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Saint Jerome on Friendship
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saadi on Friendship
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Rebecca West on Friendship
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.