“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” ~ Woodrow T. Wilson

“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which

“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.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. but when thou art in, continue firm and and constant.” ~ Samuel Butler

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut

“Be slow to fall into friendship- but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” ~ Socrates

“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.” ~ Virginia Woolf

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” ~ Washington

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to

“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

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~ Henry Ford

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod- my shadow does that much better.” ~ Plutarch

“Friends are the family you choose.” ~ Jess C. Scott

“A friendship that can end never really began” ~ Publilius Syrus

“In prosperity our friends know us. In adversity we know our friends.” ~ John Churton Collins

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship. It is the spiritual inspiration that comes

“Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.

“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“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.

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ~ Linda Grayson

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” ~ Marlene Dietrich

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” ~ Alexander Dumas

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker

“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side. Our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.” ~ George Eliot

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ~ Aristotle

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ~ Helen Keller

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ~ Aristotle

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast. A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ~ C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value- rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ~

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” ~ Charles Lamb

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” ~ David Tyson Gentry

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life and they are the only things from this world