"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
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha
"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 (also attributed to Maimonidies).
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard
"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
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln,
"The love of my life is the love between friends."
"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"
"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
- Guido
"Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background."
-Claudette Renner
"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 a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends."
"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
- Francois Mocuriac
"Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours."
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
- "Pizza Place Sign"
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."
"True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign
"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us." "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
"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
- Collins English Dictionary
"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
- Emma Stacey
"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
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"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
