If two Friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will -lose- one friend.
If two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will +gain+ one Friend.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old you shall drink it with pleasure.
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.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
To fish for praise sow the seeds: friendly words and kindly deeds.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.