"Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard 32 favorites
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the mo... - Charles Eliot 24 favorites
"No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mauriac 23 favorites
"I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch 23 favorites
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." - Charles Colton 21 favorites
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell 18 favorites
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." - Giotto Bondone 16 favorites
"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness." - John Howe 16 favorites
"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they’re beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and t... - Emily Mortimer 15 favorites
"Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends." - Janis Joplin 15 favorites
"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend." 14 favorites
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!" - Doug Larson 14 favorites
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True... 14 favorites
"Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other." - Honore De 14 favorites
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Marcus Tullius Cicero 14 favorites
"We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion f... - Orson Welles 14 favorites