Friendship

"Oh, call it by some better name, For Friendship sounds too cold."

"Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them."

"We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade."

"Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat."

"Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore in duro est inspicienda fides."

"Cætera fortunæ, non mea, turba fuit."

"Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them."

"Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum."

"There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue."

"Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.)"

"A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."

"Mine own familiar friend."

"There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold soone decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe."

"Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est."

"Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided."

"Dear is my friend—yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should."

"Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed."

"Perhaps it is the deprivation that keeps hearts connected. Once everything is fulfilled, wings sprout in everyone’s heart, and they fly off to different destinations. How can a relationship stay warm with just the body, when the heart is absent?""

"Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet."

"To hear him speak, and sweetly smile You were in Paradise the while."

"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence."

"For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best."

"For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price."

"'Tis something to be willing to commend; But my best praise is, that I am your friend."

"It's an owercome sooth fo' age an' youth, And it brooks wi' nae denial, That the dearest friends are the auldest friends, And the young are just on trial."

"I thought you and he were hand-in-glove."

"Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum."

"Amicum lædere ne joco quidem licet."

"Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam."

"A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained; and indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen."

"Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things which have a latitude, use your own liberty."

"When I choose my friend, I will not stay till I have received a kindness; but I will choose such a one that can do me many if I need them; but I mean such kindnesses which make me wiser, and which make me better."

"Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air, common to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of love, have made them proper and peculiar."

"Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellence and usefulness are its great endearments."

"Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls."

"O friendship, equal-poised control, O heart, with kindliest motion warm, O sacred essence, other form, O solemn ghost, O crowned soul!"

"Then came your new friend: you began to change— I saw it and grieved."

"Ego meorum solus sum meus."

"Fidus Achates."

"God save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies."

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it."

"I have friends in Spirit Land,— Not shadows in a shadowy band, Not others but themselves are they, And still I think of them the same As when the Master's summons came."

"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."

"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new * * * is neither strong nor pure."

"I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself."

"The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre."

"Character is so largely affected by associations that we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who and what our friends are. They write their names in our albums, but they do more, they help make us what we are. Be therefore careful in selecting them; and when wisely selected, never sacrifice them."