* Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
* Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway
* He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
* When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
* I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
* A good friend of my son's is a son to me
* Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
* "What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
* Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Thomas J. Watson
* Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway
Elbert Hubbard
* He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
* When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher
* I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
* A good friend of my son's is a son to me
Lois McMaster Bujold
* Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
* "What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
Frank Hall Crane
* Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
* 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