Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Don’t worry about knowing people—just make yourself worth knowing.
Life benefits from serving others, for as it reaches out to help, it gathers something for itself—friendship.
A person who has a lot of friends either has a lot fo money or is a good listener.
Associate with winners.
If you can buy a person’s friendship, it is not worth it.
True friends have hearts that beat as one.
We will think and talk like the person we listen to the most.
Christian fellowship simply means an opening of Christian hearts.
If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
You can bank on any friendship where interest is paid.
No one has so big a house that he does not need a good neighbor.
If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?
Christ’s friendship prevails when human friendship fails.
Short visits make long friends.
A good neighbor is one who neither looks down on you nor keeps up with you.
A friend is one who helps you bridge the gaps between loneliness and fellowship, frustration and confidence, despair and hope, setbacks and success.
Our greatest wealth is not measured in terms of riches but relationships.
A friend is never known till he is needed.
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
Friendship is a responsibility—not an opportunity.
Friendship is the cement that holds the world together.
Friends are those who speak to you after others don’t.
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue.
Pick your friends, but not to pieces.
A friend is one who puts his finger on a fault without rubbing it in.
The difference between an enemy and a friend is that neither of them will help you when you’re in trouble—except you don’t expect an enemy to.
The way to have friends is to be willing to lose some arguments.
When a friend deals with a friend, let the bargain be well penned, that they may continue friends to the end.
If a friend makes a mistake, don’t rub it in—rub it out.
If you long to be with Christians, you belong to Christ.
A hundred friends are not enough, but one enemy is too much.
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Never choose friends by their looks.
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
Don’t tell your friends about your troubles: “How are you!” is a greeting—not a question.
You cannot see eye to eye with the person you look down upon.
You can meet friends everywhere, but you cannot meet enemies anywhere—you have to make them.
Being square creates a circle of friends.
It is just as difficult to get along in this world without a friend as it is to get along without food to eat.
Someone defined happiness as losing an argument to a friend and later finding out the friend was really wrong after all.
A friend is a person who can step on your toes without messing your shine.
The quickest way to wipe out a friend is to sponge on him.
A friend is someone to add up all your traits but to bring up only the good ones.
People are judged by the company they keep, and the company they keep away from.
Deal with others’ faults as gently as if they were your own.
No matter how rich a man may be, there’s nothing he can buy finer than a friend.
My enemies are my friends who don’t know me.
Be friendly with the folks you know—if it weren’t for them, you would be a total stranger.
If every Christian were as friendly as you are, would any visitor come back to your church?
An unwelcome guest is one of the best things going.
If you cannot think of any nice things to say about your friends, then you have the wrong friends.
A friend is someone who like you even though he doesn’t need you anymore.
Make friends before you need them.
If your friends misquote you, think how much worse it might be had they quoted you correctly.
To be without a friend is a serious form of poverty.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Make friends with your creditors, but never make creditors of your friends.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
The best possession one may have is a true friend.
Friendship is the art of overlooking the shortcomings of others.
Make friendship a habit and you will always have friends.
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
The more arguments you win, the fewer friends you will have.
The art of being a good guest is knowing when to leave.
A friend is someone who knows all our faults but still loves us.
You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.
An open enemy is better than a false friend.
Doing nothing for your friends results in having no friends to do for.
A person may live in a good neighborhood but be a poor neighbor.
Friends knock before they enter, not after they leave.
Regardless of what happens, some of your friends knew it would.
An old friend is better than two new ones.
Anyone can give advice, but a real friend will lend a helping hand.
You can make more friends by being interested in them than trying to have them be interested in you.
A man is not only known by the company he keeps, but by the enemies he makes.
A real friend is a person who when you’ve make a fool of yourself, lets you forget it.
A friend is a person who listens attentively while you say nothing.
Friends are made by many acts—and lost by only one.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
You can buy friendship with friendship, but never with dollars.
True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare; false friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.
There is nothing like a long face to shorten one’s list of friends.
If you’re up to no good for a friend, your friend is no good for you.
To have money and friends is easy—to have friends and no money is an accomplishment.
A friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked.
The most miserable person on earth is the one who has money and no friends.
Life benefits from serving others, for as it reaches out to help, it gathers something for itself—friendship.
Those who suffer need more than sympathy; they need companionship.
There are three faithful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Solitude is very sad, but too much company is twice as bad.
Friendships earned before you need them are almost certain to be more lasting.
Perhaps we think more of our friends than our relatives because we selected them.