"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton
"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
- Anoymous (sent by Deanne Pigdon)
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."
- William Yeats
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome
"A friend in need is a friend indeed."
- Latin Proverb
"Life without a friend is like death without a witness."
- Spanish Proverb
"May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine
on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may
God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
- Irish Blessing
" A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the
gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."
- Arabian Proverb