Encouraging Seal

A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. - Leo Robin

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. - Aristotle

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. - Gore Vidal

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. - Benjamin Franklin

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. - Plautus

The sweetest grapes are picked from the vineyard of friendship. - French Proverb

It takes a year to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour. - Chinese Proverb

If I didn't have you as a mom, I'd choose you as a friend. - Unknown

Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. - Farmer's Almanac

It's easy to make a friend. What's hard is to make a stranger. - Unknown

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. - Thomas Aquinas

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. - Kristin Hannah

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D Rockefeller

It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Colette

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Joseph Joubert

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. - John Taylor

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. - Mark Twain

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. - Mencius

I was such an ugly baby. My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend. - Rodney Dangerfield

Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship, mutual respect and enjoyment of each others' company. - John M Gottman

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. - Robert Bloch

Do you think you're safe in a car with your seatbelt on? Dream on. My friend thought so. Now she's pregnant. - Anke Engelke

Sometimes me think, 'What is Friend?' and then me say, 'Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.' - Cookie Monster

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. - Samuel Johnson

A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body - let me know if I ever need to bring a shovel. - Unknown

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell