Ah! were I sever’d from thy side,
Where were thy friend, and who my guide?
Years have not seen, Time shall not see
The hour that tears my soul from thee.
—Byron
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
—C. N. Bovee
I have friends in Spirit land,—
Not shadows in a shadowy band,
Not others but themselves are they;
And still I think of them the same
As when the Master’s summons came.
—Whittier
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
—Sydney Smith
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min’?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o’ auld lang syne?
—Burns
No man has been able to discover how to give a friendly counsel to any woman, not even to his wife.
—Balzac
In friendships, some are worthy, and some are necessary.