Friendship is love with understanding. - Ancient Proverb

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf

Each has his past shut in him, like the pages of a book, known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. - Virginia Woolf

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -Abraham Lincoln

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. -Calvin & Hobbes

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -Aristotle

I wanted a perfect ending... Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

We cannot part with our friends; we cannot let our angels go. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer

And the song from the beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

At the end of the day, if they hate you, then forget them. - Keith Flint

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. - Wilson Mizner

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. - Abraham Lincoln

But every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it. - Elizabeth Shane

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. - Leo Bucaglia

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

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. - Anais Nin

Even if we're apart, I'll always be with you. - Christopher Robin

A friend is a present you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is one that knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow. - William Shakespeare

A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway. - Christi Mary Warner

Friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely... they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for... worth dying for too. If that’s what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build houses in your heart. - Stephen King

Little by little we discover one friend in the midst of the crowd of friends, who is particularly happy to be with us. And to whom we have an infinite number of things to say. She is not at the top of her class, she is not particularly well thought of by others, she does not wear showy clothes, and when we are walking home with her, we realize her shoes are identical to ours. Strong and simple, not showy and flimsy like those of other friends. - Natalie Ginzburg

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. - Gloria Naylor

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. - Henry Ward Beecher

Once in an age, Gods sends to some of us a friend who loves in us . . . not the person that we are, but the angel we might be. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The way I see it, you only make a once in a lifetime friend once in a while. - Stymie, The Little Rascals

Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf
It takes a lot of understanding and time and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset. - Erynn Miller

A friend understands even when your thoughts aren't fitting into words. - Ann D. Parrish
I've brought to you my insecurities and laid them carefully around you, hoping that you would deal with them gently. You stood beside me when so many have walked away. You sheltered me with affection and I felt more secure. You did not treat me with insignificance, but you showed me a brighter side. - Sherrie L. Householder

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

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. -Stone Temple Pilots

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 he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter where you are, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart. - Collin McCarty

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry

Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubbard

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Enjoy your life and where you've been. Look to the future and what it holds. Think about your favorite memories and the happiness you will discover. Realize all that you've done, all that you are... And dream of all the things you want to experience and will become.

When we lose a friend, we die a little.

Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their heart to us. The star catcher grinned and whispered a plan, I'll catch all the stars that I possibly can. Then give them to all of my friends so they will truly see how sparkling and special they are to me.

Don't let distance get in the way. Hold on to your friendship for it will be there forever.

Two good friends are like pillars on a porch. Sometimes holding one another, sometimes leaning on one another, and always standing by each other.

Of all the gifts that life can send, there's none more perfect than a friend. A friend whose smile and thoughtful way, adds happiness to everyday.

The person who wrote Friend - the most beautiful word in our language must have had a wonderful friend... someone just as special as you are to me.

A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.

Because we can't call people without wings, angels, we call them friends instead.

The best thing about pictures is that they never change, even though the people in them do.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Breaking up with a boyfriend is a million times easier than breaking up with a best friend.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Cherish your friends, for in an instant, they may be gone.

The difficulty is not to die for a friend, but to find a friend worth dying for.

Don't let distance get in the way; hold onto your friendship, for it will be there forever.

An enemies promise is meant to be broken.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

A friend hears the song of my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

A friend is like a heart that goes on strong until the end.

A friend is like an owl, both beautiful and wise.

A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

I know we'll be friends for life, sharing our dreams together. As we walk down the road, we'll never think twice, our memories will last forever. And although we're off to different worlds, somehow we're together. And even though we're far apart, our memories are deep within our hearts. These are the times to remember our memories will last forever more.

Friends are angels who lift up your feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

You were always there when I needed you, never left my side. Always there to lean on and dry the tears I cried. I could always talk to you, you never seemed to mind. Your voice so honest and gentle, your words so honest and kind. I thought I'd never meet someone as special as you are. You're my best friend in the whole wide world. You're my shooting star.

Every now and then, we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time I fall. You're the best that I found. I know you can't stay, but part of you will never ever go away. Your heart will stay. I'll make a wish for you and hope it will come true; that life will be kind to such a gentle mind, and if you lose your way, think back on yesterday. Remember me that way.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.

Friends show us who we are and who we can be, where we've been and where we're going.
Best friends never tell each other that they're best friends, they just know.

When the path that you're on turns surprisingly rough and wherever you're going, the going gets tough...when you're giving your all but it's just not enough...all you need is a friend.

Friends are ANGELS who lift up to our feet, when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

I don’t need a certain number of friends... just a number of friends I can be certain of.

It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it is really sad when the best of friends, become two strangers.

The present is always being taken for granted, until it is the past, and it is only then that we realize it; and it’s the same way with friends, until you’ve lost one, you do not realize the value of a good friend.

I will not drag you along. I will not leave you alone. I will stand by you and have my hand there for you to hold when you need to.

Fear not, for I will always hold your hand through the hard times. Do not be ashamed to cry, for I will always be there to wipe your tears. Never hesitate to come to me with your problems, for my heart will always be there to listen and help. Remember that I will always be there for you, always.
Wherever you go, I'll be with you. Whatever you want, I'll give it to you. Whenever you need someone to lay your heart and head upon remember, after the fire, after all the rain, I will be the flame.

In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

We started as total strangers and ended as lifetime friends. We shared a season of our lives, but every season has to end.

It is by chance we met, by choice we became friends... friendship is a strange thing... we find ourselves telling each other the deepest details of our lives.

People say that true friends must always hold hands. But true friends don’t need to hold hands, because they know that the other hand will always be there.

A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump after them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

A friend is someone who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, doesn’t feel that you’ve done a permanent job.

A true friend is someone who is there for you, even when they’d rather be somewhere else.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Everyone may hear what you have to say, but friends listen to what you say, and best friends listen to what you don’t say.

Friendship: a contract signed with laughter and broken with tears.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

True friendship brings sunshine to the shade and shade to the sunshine.

"Friends always show their love. What are brothers for if not to share troubles?"-

"Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers."

"Foresake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure."

"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."

"A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder - watch out!"

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."

"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him."

"The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them."

"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."

""A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure."

"Cherish your friend, keep faith in him"

"Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time."

" Faithful friends are beyond price: No amount can balance their worth

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."

NB: Brendan Johnston notes that this passage usually reads: "As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."

"A friend loveth at all times."

"Does it make me a stranger that my best friend was born in a manger?"

"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance."

"Friends in Christ are friends forever"

"Friends are friends forever, if the Lord is the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never, cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands I know
That a lifetime's not too long... to live as friends."

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~Samuel Pepys

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ~Sarah Orne Jewett

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ~Francesco Guicciardini

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold

Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch

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

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake

If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are. ~Anonymous

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Author Unknown

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

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~Ethel Barrymore

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton

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