A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else...

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

The man who won’t loan money isn’t going to have many friends – or need them.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Friendship either finds or makes equals

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

A friend you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.

I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

If I were to marry again tomorrow, I wouldtn’t give up one friend. I’d take them all with me as a sort of dowry and tell my new husband that he was getting a rich...

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

We should never have any kind of malevolence towards our friends.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Love develops through friendship.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but...

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.