A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words.
A good friend stabs you in the front.-- Oscar Wilde
True friendship is infinite--and immortal.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. -Louisa May Alcott [1832-1888], American writer, reformist
A friend is a gift you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. -Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer (1709-1784)
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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 (1732-1799)
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, French-born American writer (1903-1977)
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, French writer and philosopher (1913-1960)
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. --Woodrow Wilson
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. --G. Randolf
Friends are the part of our family we get to choose.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. --Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the greatest treasured gift anyone can give you. So if you have happened to find true friendship, do not abuse it, treasure it. For from friendship comes greater things... --Jolene Frunchak
Many people will walk in and out of your life... only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Friends, you and me... you brought another friend and then there were 3. We started our group, our circle of friends... and like that circle, there is no beginning or end.
The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. -Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341-270 BC)
Pick your friends like you would pick a diamond. They all start off unpolished, but with a little work, they can become a sparkle in your life. --Gary Harrington
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar. -Robert Brault
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. - Thomas Fuller
Do not keep the alabaster box of your love & friendship 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 and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. --George William Childs
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.