I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.- Katherine Mansfield
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.- Oscar Wilde
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. - Francesco Guicciardini
The making of friends who are real friends is the best token we have of a man's success in life.- Edward Everett Hale
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.- Henry David Thoreau
Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.- Jennie Churchill
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 it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.- Shel Silverstein
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Brandi Snyder
Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them.- Amy Leigh Mercree
Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while.-
Friends don't let friends do silly things...alone.
Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. - Celia Brayfield
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins
True friendship is like phosphorescence—it glows best when the world around you goes dark.- Denise Martin
There is nothing I wouldn't do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. - Jane Austen
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.- Alexandre Dumas
Best friends are the people in your life who make you smile brighter, laugh louder and live better.
In life have a friend that's like a mirror and shadow; Mirror doesn't lie and shadow never leaves.
The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around. - Renee Olstead
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. - Len Wein
A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all. - Ellie Wade
A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away. - Shannon L. Alder
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. - Eugene Kennedy
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.- Sydney Smith
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.- George Eliot
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. - William Rotsler
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.- Khalil Gibran
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
When we seek to discover the best in others we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.- William Arthur Ward
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. -Lisa See
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. -Augustine Birrell
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweetener of life, and solder of society. -Robert Blair
Though time and miles may separate us, I have built a bridge of lovely memories to span the distance. -Virginia Tubbs
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung
That is the best thing that anybody can be to anybody else—a friend.- Alexander McCall Smith
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.- Amos Bronson Alcott
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.- Harbhajan Singh
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.- Barbara Kingsolver
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment is a secret which but few discover. -Joseph Addison
Friendship is the comfort that comes from knowing that even when you feel all alone, you aren't.
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. Vincent van Gogh
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. -George Washington
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. -Thomas Huxley
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you. A.A. Milne
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 hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. -Octavia Butler
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
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. -Thomas Jefferson
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
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. -Douglas Pagels
Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know that they are always there.
What is a friend? I will tell you: it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. -Frank Crane
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.- Francois Muriac
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. - Giotto di Bondone
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. - George Santayana
In my friend, I find a second self.- Isabel Norton Isabel Norton
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.- Charles Lamb
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 true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.- William Penn
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. -Margaret Lee Runbeck
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
Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.
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 to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.- 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 makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.- Ray Bradbury
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 for others, they will live for you.- Paramahansa Yogananda
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.- Marlene Dietrich
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.- Sicilian Proverb
Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.- Steve Maraboli
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.- C.J. Langenhoven
I get by with a little help from my friends.- The Beatles
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. Aristotle
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. Shanna Rodriguez
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.- Amy Poehler
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 the limo breaks down.- Oprah Winfrey
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.- Eleanor Roosevelt
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.- Grace Pulpit
Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life. - Nathanael Richmond
Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them‰Û your smile, your hope and your courage.- Doe Zantamata
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.- John Leonard
Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.- Virginia Woolf
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.- Thomas Aquinas
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.- Chelsea Handler
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.- Henry van Dyke
A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. - Sarah Valdez
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.- Aristotle
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.- Jean de la Fontaine
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.- Albert Camus
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The best time to make friends is before you need them.- Ethel Barrymore
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.- Ed Cunningham
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.- Woodrow T. Wilson
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 friendship, you really haven't learned anything.- Muhammad Ali
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.- Anais Nin
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.- Anna Taylor
True friends are like diamond—bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.- Nicole Richie
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 to grow.- William Shakespeare
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.- Irish Proverb
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.- Khalil Gibran
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.- Marcel Proust
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.- Hubert H. Humphrey
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”—Sicilian Proverb
“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”—Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”—Aristotle
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”—Grace Pulpit
“Friends make you smile—best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.”—Terri Guillemets
“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”—Bill Watterson
“In my friend, I find a second self.”—Isabel Norton
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.”—Steve Maraboli
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”—Aristotle
“You’ve got a friend in me.”—Toy Story
“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ Asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.”—A.A. Milne
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A true friend is someone who will always love you—the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do.”—R.J.L.
“If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time… then see who sticks around.”—Karen Salmonsohn
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”—Anna Taylor
“Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had / I’ve been with you such a long time / you’re my sunshine / and I want you to know that my feelings are true / I really love you / Oh you’re my best friend.”—Queen
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”—Elizabeth Foley
“‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.'”—E.B. White
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself—and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to—letting a person be what he really is.”—Jim Morrison
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”—The Beatles
“True friendship is never serene.”—Marquise de Sevigne
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.”—Stephen King
“Some people go to priests. Others go to poetry. I go to my friends.”—Virginia Woolfe
“True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”–Nicole Richie
“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”—Socrates
“Only a true friend would be that truly honest.”—Shrek
“There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”—Jane Austen
“There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.”—Jim Henson
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”—Sylvia Plath
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”—Aristotle
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.”—J.K. Rowling
“Don’t walk in behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”—Albert Camus
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”–Oscar Wilde
“The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy into your soul.”—Shanna Rodriguez
“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 to grow.”—William Shakespeare
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”—Amy Poehler
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something to you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”—Muhammad Ali
“Friendship makes a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession; friendship is never anything but sharing.”—Elie Wiesel
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”—Irish proverb
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”—Henry David Thoreau
“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
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”—Dr. Seuss
“A friendship that can be ended didn’t ever start.”—Mellin De Saint-Gelais
“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
“Friends should be like books: few, but hand-selected.”—C.J. Langenhoven
“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”—Samuel Johnson
“How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend Depends how much you give ’em.”—Shel Silverstein
“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 the limo breaks down.”—Oprah Winfrey
“Good friends help you find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage.”—Doe Zantamata
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”—A.A. Milne
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”—Linda Grayson
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend whof or me does not consult his calendar.” —Robert Brault
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.”—Ally Condie
“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 that we could hope to see in the next.”—Dean Koontz
“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”—Dorothy Parker
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”—Woodrow Wilson
“A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.”—Steven J. Daniels
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.” — Isabel Allende
“True friends are always together in spirit.” — L.M. Montgomery
“Friendship takes work. Finding friends, nurturing friendships, scheduling face time, it all take a tremendous amount of work. But it’s worth it. If you put in the effort, you’ll see the rewards of positive friends who will make your life extraordinary.” — Maya Angelou
“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” —Vincent Van Gogh
“True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” — Josh Grayson
“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
“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 that we could hope to see in the next.” — Dean Koontz
“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 that.” — Ally Condie
“There are three things that grow more precious with age: old wood to burn, old books to read and old friends to enjoy.” — Henry Ford
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” — George Santayana
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” — Henry Ford
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.” —G. Randolf
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” —Anna Taylor
“The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone ... You can choose your family.” — Jennifer Lopez
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibson
“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” —Heidi Wills
“I have a best friend in my life who I know is my soulmate.” — Lili Reinhart
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” — Elbert Hubbard
"True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style." — Nicole Richie
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
“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 friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” ― Thomas Fuller
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen, "Someone Like You"
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” — Steve Maraboli
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” — Jean de la Fontaine
“Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things.” — Paulo Coelho
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” — C.S. Lewis
“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” — Gina Barreca
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides
“A single rose can be my garden … a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson
“Best friend isn’t a person; it’s a tier.” — Mindy Kaling
“Whoever says friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!” — Bronwyn Polson
“An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.” — Jim Hayes
“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
“As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.” — Gossip Girl, "Gossip Girl"
“I’ll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends — and my friends are hilarious.” — Issa Rae
"My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane." — Matt Schucker
“To like and dislike the same things, that is what makes a solid friendship.” —Sallust
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em." — Shel Silverstein
"You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common." — Lyle Lovett
"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled." — Ally Condie
"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is." — Mindy Kaling
"Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend." — Sarah Dessen
"Remember that life's most valuable antiques are dear old friends." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way." — Emma Watson
"I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, 'Hey, you can do this,' put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!" — Reese Witherspoon
"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."
"What I realise now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there's nothing left between you, that you've hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves." — Colette McBeth
"The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'…But as long as each of these percipient persons dies without finding a kindred soul, nothing (I suspect) will come of it; art or sport or spiritual religion will not be born. It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision—it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in immense solitude." — C.S. Lewis
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." — Virginia Woolf
"There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family."
"For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"I always say, Lorelei Lee got it wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure, and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to." — Gina Barreca
"Friendship's the wine of life." — Edward Young
"A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." — Lois Wyse
"If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you." — Winnie the Pooh
"That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart." — Kristin Hannah
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light." — Helen Keller
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;" — Joseph Addison
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A faithful friend loves to the end."
"And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." — Elie Wiesel
"To friendship every burden's light." — Aesop
"One good friendship will outlive forty average loves."
"A true friend is for ever a friend." — George MacDonald
"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 that we could hope to see in the next." — Dean Koontz
"True friends are great riches."
"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies." — Aristotle
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature." — Jane Austen
"[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship." — Hubert Humphrey
"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy." — Henry Ford
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." — Anaïs Nin
"Hence (if you will not misunderstand me) the exquisite arbitrariness and irresponsibility of this love. I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival." — C.S. Louis
"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." — Winnie the Pooh
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." — Woodrow Wilson
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." — Henry Ford
"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 friendship, you really haven't learned anything." — Muhammad Ali
