"Nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero
"Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that."
- Robert C. Edwards
"Never explain--your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Never forget your friends, they are your roots to life, and with the memories lost, you will just blow in the wind..."
- Christopher Allen Weller
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero
"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people."
- Cynthia Heimel
"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."
- Tensin, Madame de
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
- Thomas Fuller
"No man is useless while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."
- Thomas Jefferson
"No sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking there's more than that ..."
- David Duchovny
"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his."
- Franklin P. Jones
"Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go."
- Alfred Edward Housman
"Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?"
- Nicholas Grimald
"Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquistion of friends."
- Epicurus
"Of perfidious friends: ‘We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.’"
- Sir Francis Bacon
"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend."
- Samuel Johnson
"Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold."
- Charles Lamb
"Oh I get by with a little help from my friends, Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget."
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
"Oh, the world’s a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. An’ a good God must have made it—leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort o’way."
- James Whitcomb Riley
"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day."
- The Dalai Lama
"Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be."
- Gary Harrington
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."
- Henry Adams
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides
"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then."
- Henry David Thoreau
"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is ..."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"One who looks for a friend without faults will have none"
- Hasidic
"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
- Stephen King
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
- Willa Cather
"Optimist — The sort of man who marries his sister's best friend."
- Henry Louis Mencken
"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
"Part of me wants to call you up and talk to you like a friend, and there’s a part of me that wants to shut you out and never see your face again."
- Wilson Phillips
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, ..."
- George Eliot
"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
- George Eliot