You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a read more

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that read more

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.

Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.

When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the read more

When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the true ones stay.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends read more

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe;
Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;
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Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe;
Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.