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"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget."-- Unknown

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
-- Thomas Edison

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Our 'true' friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best and not take away and whittle down." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-- Walter Winchell

"A real friend never gets in your way-unless you happen to be on the way down."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
-- Anonymous

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
-- Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921, Mother of Winston Churchill)

"True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."
-- Edna Buchanan

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
-- Ben Johnson

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."
-- James Boswell (1740 - 1795)

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?"
-- George Eliot (Novelist)

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

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Dale Carnegie

"Your friends will be what you make them. If you are the kind of friend who freely gives of your time and always shows consideration for others, your friends will be generous and kind. If you are the kind of person who takes your friends for granted, neither giving nor expecting much in return, you will attract friends who exhibit the same qualities. In friendship, like attracts like. Assess your behavior occasionally to determine what kind of friend you are. Are you the kind of person you would like to have as a friend? Do you freely give more than you expect in return, or are you always asking and never giving? Do you take the time to stay in touch, to remember friends’ special occasions? When you become so consumed with your own interests that you forget about your friends, you are well on your way to becoming friendless."
-- (a positive message from the Napoleon Hill Foundation)

"Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist."
-- Gordon B. Hinckley, "Stay on the High Road" (Ensign, May 2004, 113-114)

"Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist."
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends; the power of going out of ones's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another."
-- Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896) English jurist and writer

"By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable."
-- Jeremy Taylor

"Do not keep the alabaster box of your love and friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go."
-- George William Childs (1829-1894) publisher and philanthropist

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead."
-- Anna Cummins (Poet)

"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view."
-- Wilma Askinas

"A friend is someone you can be alone with and having nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence."
-- Sheryl Condie

"A friend loveth at all times..."
Holy Bible, Proverbs 17:17

"Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees, and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man."
-- David O. McKay

"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
-- James Francis Byrnes

"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, literary critic and playwright

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with friendship."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson