"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes."

-- Doug Larson

"Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never."

--Victor Hugo, 1802-1885

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

-- Samuel Johnson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends."

-- Percy Byshe Shelley

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

-- Mark Twain

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

-- Henry Ford

"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

-- unknown

"A friend should be mathematical. He should Multiply the joy, Divide the sorrow, Subtract the past, and Add to tomorrow. Calculate the need deep in your heart. And always be bigger, the sum of all it parts."

-- Nikky --

"A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson -

- "A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

-- Unknown --

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

-- Benjamin Franklin --

"Better are the blows of a friend than the false kisses of an enemy."

-- Thomas a Becket --

"Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice."

-- James Howell --

"Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him."

-- Benjamin Franklin --

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Just walk with me and be my friend."

-- Unknown --

"Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

-- Oliver Wendell Homes --

"For with every memory we've shared through the years, when one smile ends, a new one appears."

-- Emily Mathews --

"Friends are encouragment when times are rough. Friends are memories both precious and real. Friends understand and know how you feel. Friends are laughter and also tears. Friends are trusting, loyal and kind."

-- Unknown --

"Friendship and a rose, Nurished it grows."

-- Unknown --

"Friendship has no name but love."

-- Habib

Sahabib -- "Friendship is like a rose, the longer it lasts, the sweeter it grows."

-- Unknown --

"Friendship is like money easier made than kept."

-- Samuel Butler --

"Friendship is love with understanding."

-- Ancient Proverb --

"Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life."

-- Edward Everett Hale --

"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

-- James Francis Byrnes --

"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need."

-- Shakespeare --

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."

-- Nigerian Proverb --

"If friendship means gladness, then how can I start to count all the smiles You've brought to my heart?"

-- Unknown --

"In my friend, I find a second self."

-- Unknown --

"Never explain--your friends don't need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

-- Unknown --

"Never put off till tomorrow a kindness you can do today"

-- Unknown --

"The only thing to do is hug one's friends tight and do one's job."

-- Edith Wharton --

"The ornaments of our house are the friends that frequent it."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

-- James M. Barrie --

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"

-- Charles Colton --

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

-- Jean de La Fontaine --