It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.
The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun. '
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.
Why you got your ass on your shoulders?
Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes. . . and whatever lies upon the heart.
There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.
In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.