We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more

We cannot tell the exact moment a 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 that makes the heart run over.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his read more

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, read more

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.