"Wal'r, my boy," replied the captain; "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words: 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."

"Les amis—ces parents que l'on se fait soi-même."

"Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow."

"As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port—heaven,— Friend, what years could us divide?"

"The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it."

"Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie."

"Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can."

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit."

"Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores."

"You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends."

"Amicus est tanquam alter idem."

"Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend."

"Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends."

"Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt: Where amity is ty'd with band of truth, All benefits are there in common set."

"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend."

"'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been."

"In friendship I early was taught to believe; * * * * * * I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive."

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

"Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide? Years have not seen, Time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee."

"His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither— They had been fou for weeks thegither!"

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, Though they return with scars."

"Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon."

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?"

"We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine."

"Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life."

"Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own—my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!"

"Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society."

"Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures; Little howe'er it seems, It is yours, all yours."

"It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him."

"The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break."

"Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn."

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends."

"When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.""

"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends—those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work—who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?—now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail—if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

"Never Explain—your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway"

"The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent."

"Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods."

"If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere."

"Death is mighty, and is no one's friend."

"A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does."

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."

"And friend received with thumps upon the back."

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends."

"Others because you did not keep"

"I have lost friends, some by death [...] others through sheer inability to cross the street."

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature — it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist — to sympathise with a friend's success."

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."