The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
- Rita Mae Brown

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
- R. A. Dickson

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

The good man is the friend of all living things.
-Mahatma Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-Henry Louis Mencken

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-George Bernard Shaw

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
-Virginia Woolf

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- Plutarch

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
-Katharine Butler Hathaway

He who loses money loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.
-Henry H. Haskins

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
- Anonymous

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
-Joseph Addison

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
- Jean de la Bruy re (1645-1696)

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
-Richard Burton

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
-George Eliot

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
-Sam Walter Foss

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
- Robert Hall

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
-William James

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
-Charles Lamb

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
-Robert Lynd

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
- John Henry Newman

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
- Ricther

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
- George Santayana

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
-The Talmud

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

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
-Charles Dudley Warner

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
- Anonymous

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
- Anonymous

Friendship is love with understanding.
- Anonymous

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
-Charles M. Schwab

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
- Anonymous

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
-Dale Carnegie

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
-James Goldsmith

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
- Fran ois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.
-Francis Beaumont

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
-Bertrand Russell V. Delong

A kiss: A peculiar proposition. Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it. The baby's right, the lover's privilege, and the hypocrite's mask. To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.
- V. P. I. Skipper

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingred Bergman

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly elude him.
-Sidney Madwed

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
-Albert Schweitzer

I am a friend, I sense that something is wrong and I am going to keep reaching out until you reach back.
- Al (to Tim on Home Improvements TV show)

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
- Woodrow Wilson

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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