I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
- Thomas Jefferson
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
- Pietro Aretino
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
- Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article.
- Shakespeare
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E. M. Forster
If we from wealth to poverty descend, want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
- Dryden
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
- Thomas Fuller
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
- La Bruyere
In love one has need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
- Abel Bonnard
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
- Epictetus
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- Churton Collins
It is a rule in friendship, when Distrust enters in at the foregate, Love goes out at the postern.
- Howell
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend of his faults...To speak painful truth through loving words-that is friendship.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is the friend you can call up at four a.m. that matters.
- Marlene Dietrich
It may be true that a touch of indifference is the safest foundation on which to build a lasting and delicate friendship.
- W. Robertson Nicoli
