"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle

"The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship."
- William Blake

"Friendship is love with wings."
- Anonymous

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero

"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott

"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."
- William Yeats

"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

"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
- Helen Keller

"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome

"I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
- William Shakespeare

"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak."
- John Donne

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly

"Friends have all things in common."
- Plato

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Artistotle

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

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
- George Eliot

"It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
- Shelly

"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner

"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
- Thomas Jefferson

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
- Francoise Sagan

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
- Kahil Gibran

"There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
- Bejamin Disraeli

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
- Walt Whitman

"True friendship is never serene."
- Marquise de Sevigne

"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
- Anatole Broyard

"Friends are born, not made."
- Henry Adams

"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."
- Aristotle

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
- Francis Bacon

"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh

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

"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
- Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale

"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
- Francis Bacon

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
- Henry David Thoreau

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
- James Fenimore Cooper

"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
- Fracis Bacon

"A friend to all is a friend to none."
- Aristotle

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

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

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
- Alexander Pope

"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
- Anoymous (sent by Deanne Pigdon)

"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams