A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Adabella Radici
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. ~Samuel Johnson
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë
True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend (Thank you, Carolyn.)
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~Epicurus
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Author Unknown
Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine
Friendship is Love, without his wings. ~Lord Byron, L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. ~Diana Cortes
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault
'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ~Emil Ludwig
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ~David Storey
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ~William Hazlitt
In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
