You can always tell a real fri...

You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

~Laurence J. Peter~

Yes'm, old friends is always b...

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

~Sarah Orne Jewett~

Yes we are [friends] and I do ...

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.

~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992~

Without wearing any mask we ar...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843~

When we honestly ask ourselves...

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

~Henri Nouwen~

What is a friend? A sing...

What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

~Aristotle~

What do we ask of friendship e...

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

~Robert Brault, ~

We are not enemies, but friend...

We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.

~Abraham Lincoln~

We are keenly aware of the fau...

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960~

We all take different paths in...

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

~Tim McGraw~

Walking with a friend in the d...

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

~Helen Keller~

True friendship comes when sil...

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

~Dave Tyson Gentry~

True friends ... face in the s...

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

~C. S. Lewis~

There is one friend in the lif...

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

~Edith Wharton~

There is magic in long-distanc...

There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

~Diana Cortes~

There are big ships and small ...

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.

~Author Unknown~

The tender friendships one giv...

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate~

The road to a friend's house i...

The road to a friend's house is never long.

~Danish Proverb~

The richer your friends, the m...

The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.

~Elizabeth Marbury~

The rich know not who is his f...

The rich know not who is his friend.

~Anonymous~