‘Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.’

‘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.’
Winnie the Pooh

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

‘Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.’
Albert Camus

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.

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A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
–Walter Winchell
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. ”
–Albert Camus
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
–Elbert Hubard
I get by with a little help from my friends.
–John Lennon
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. ”
–Charles Caleb Colton
“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
My friends are my estate.
–Emily Dickinson
“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. ”
–Bible: Ecclesiastes
“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. ”
–Mary Catherwood
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. ”
–C. S. Lewis
“I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel. ”
–Logan Pearsall Smith
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
–Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers)
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own. ”
–Benjamin Disraeli
“Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I’m aware of a strength that emanates in the background. ”
–Claudette Renner
“I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow. ”
–Cher
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ”
–Goethe
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
–Mencius
True friendship is never serene.
–Mariede Svign
It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
–Marlene Dietrick
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
–Robert Louis Stevenson
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. ”
–Oscar Wilde
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
–Mother Teresa
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
–Benjamin Franklin
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
–Aristotle
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ”
–Mark Twain
“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. ”
–Cicero
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. ”
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best mirror is an old friend.
–George Herbert
What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.
–Aristotle
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
–Saint Jerome
“I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends. ”
–William Shakespeare
“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial. ”
–Thomas Jefferson
“Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak. ”
–John Donne
“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end. ”
–John Boyle O’Reilly
Friends have all things in common.
–Plato
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
–Artistotle
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
–Henry Ford
“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. ”
–George Eliot
“It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm… ”
–Shelly
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
–Wilson Mizner
“The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. ”
–Thomas Jefferson
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
–Exupery
“The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life. ”
–Edward Everett Hale
“Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? ”
–Henry David Thoreau
“Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter. ”
–James Fenimore Cooper
“Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. ”
–James Francis Byrnes
True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
–Alexander Pope
“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. ”
–Francoise Sagan
Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.
–Kahil Gibran
“There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. ”
–Bejamin Disraeli
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
–Walt Whitman
True friendship is never serene.
–Marquise de Sevigne
“When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. ”
–Anatole Broyard
Friends are born, not made.
–Henry Adams
“This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half. ”
–Francis Bacon
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose. ” –Tehyi Hsieh