~ Don’t lead me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. (Anonymous)

~ None is so rich as to throw away a friend. (Turkish proverb)

~It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter. (Marlene Dietrich)

~Friendship is a word that very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. (Augustine Birrell)

~ She knows my heart and my mind, how I react to certain situations. And I know the same about her. (Holly Taines)

~ The only rose without thorns is friendship. (Madeleine De Scudery)

~ A true friend is like the refrain of a beautiful song. (F. Patarca)

~ [Fiends] cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams. (Henry David Thoreau)

~ You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all. (Author unknown)

~ The truth is [that] friendship is to me every bit as sacred as eternal marriage. (Katherine Mansfield)

~ A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. (Pioneer Girls Leaders’ Handbook)

~ Trouble shared is trouble halved. (Dorothy L. Sayers)

~ One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. (Seneca)

~ There’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. (Hilarie Belloc)

~ The best thing in life is a friend. (Snoopy)

~ Authentic female friendship is when we allow another woman to see our core, go to our core, and risk sharing our souls. (Sue Monk Kidd)

~ In my friend I find a second self. (Isabel Norton)

~ Talk between women friends is always therapy. (Hayne Anne Phillips)

~ A true friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. (Bob Philips)

~Friendship is like a bank account. You can’t continue to draw on it without making deposits. (Bob Philips)

~ She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of the day and find welcome. (May Sarton)

~ A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. (Francis Ward Wheeler)

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

~ Friends have all things in common. (Plato)

~ There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves. (Jane Austen)

~ “Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. (Louisa May Alcott)

~ If you have just one person with whom you can be weak, miserable and continue, and who won’t hurt you for it, then you are rich. (Margaret Buber-Neumann)

~ Friends put the entire world to rights over a cup of tea and a bun. (Charlotte Gray)

~ The best mirror is an old friend. (Proverb)

~ You meet your friend, your face brightens – you have struck gold. (Kassia)

~ It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him, that determines the quality of friendship. (Mary Dixon Thayer)

~ The hardest thing is not to be able to work magic for a friend. (Maya V. Patel)

~ When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. (Proverb)