It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Keep your friendships in repair.
- Emerson
Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.
- Thomas Fuller
Life is to be fortified by man friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
- Sydney Smith
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
- Arnold H. Glasow
Love and friendship exclude each other.
- La Bruyere
Love can die of a truth, as friendship of a lie.
- Abel Bonnard
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
- Gelett Burgess
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God, who gives and asks no payment.
- Richard Hovey
Love your friend with all his faults.
- Proverb: Italian
May God preserve me from the love of a friend who will never dare to rebuke me.
- Thomas Merton
May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of love lose a feather.
- Dean Edward Bannerman
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
My friend is one...who takes me for what I am.
- Thoreau
Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellence and usefulness are its great endearments.
- Jeremy Taylor
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one.
- Robert E. Lee
No friendship can survive the gift of gold. The generous can indeed forget that they have given, but the grateful can never forget that they have received.
- William Smith
