One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long.
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.