Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.