"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

"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson

"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 -

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."

"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

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard

"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

"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

"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."
- Logan Pearsall Smith

"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."

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."

"Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

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

"We are all angels with only one wing...we can fly only embracing each other."

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"

"A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget..."




"Time isn't what makes a friendship last...It's love and devotion that keeps the tie between souls."

"The best antiques are old friends."

"Friendship is a special kind of love."

"The secret to friendship is being a good listener."

"A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets."

"Gems may be presious, but friends are priceless."

"You my friend, I wiil defend. And if we change, we'll love you anyway."
- Sent by Jeffery Sherian

"If you have more than one friend, you have more than your share!"

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."

"A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life."

"Material things can't make the soul whole. The only the love, trust, and loyalty of friends can do that."

"Friendship is not friendship without trust, without it I walk alone."
- James P. Michels Jr.

"Friendship is the golden ribbon that ties the world together."

friendship is talking to your best friend without words."

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together"

"Money might make you wealthy, but friends makes you rich."

"You don't make friends, you earn them."

"When your looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship."

" A friend is someone who sticks (hangs) to you at all times, and a friend is someone who you trust...."

"How do you know you've found your best friend. When you are ready to talk to them about anything, even though they know everything about you already."

"A friend with break your heart, a friend will mend it, a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world, good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate."

"Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, but somewhere in the middle we've become best of friends."

"When we are grown, we'll smile and say we had no cares in childhoods day, but we'll be wrong. 'Twill not be true, I've this much care... I care for you."

"A faithful friend is a strong defence and he that hath found one hath found a treasure"

"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."
- Edgar A. Guest

"A friend loves you, makes you feel alright, troubles are not troubles when you talk, listen and accept you as you are, because you will feel the same and love the same......."

"No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each other's worth."
- Unknown


"Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times"

"Friends are angels following you through life"

"Friends are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you."

"You cannot say you've lost a friend. If a friendship is capable of ending, it is because it never existed."

"A world without a friend, what would it be? It would be like a world without water, something you need. Friends are like glass, once broken, they are hard to fix. Keep your friends, as you would keep your water."

"The music may stop now and then, But the the strings will remain forever..."

"Friend derives from a word meaning "free." A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be."

"Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others."

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
- Maragret Lee Runbeck

"Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;
Scatter bits of courtesy--------
watch them grow and grow.
Gather buds of friendship;
Keep them till full-blown;
You will find more happiness
than you have ever known.
- Amy R Raabe

"We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendshipt is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, There is at last one drop that makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is at last one drop that makes the heart run over."

"Any day is sunny that's brightened by a smile...Any friendship blossoms if it's tended to with style."

"The better you know someone, the less there is to say. Or maybe, there's less that needs to be said."

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."
- Richard Bach

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

"How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."

"I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. I don't remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together...always."

"You only meet your once in a lifetime friend... once in a lifetime."
- Little Rascals

"A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!"
- Anonymous

"A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better!"
- Erin Westbrook

"A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you."

"One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members."

"You just remined me of what's really important in life, friends, best friends."
- Fried Green Tomatoes

"Times of need are not enough to prove your friendship."

"If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?"
- Fred Rogers

"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart."
- Kathleen Grove

"Friends are like Peanut Butter ... it sticks to the roof of your mouth .like a friend sticks to you.... and it feels as if they never go away.!"

"True friendship, unlike love, always lasts forever."

"A friend will be there for you when things are good...but a TRUE friend will be there for you when things are good and also when things are very bad...and just when it feels like you will never smile again...she can put a smile on your face with just with a hug!"

"A real friend is not one who only entertain you, but one who cares about you, one who will be there when you cry"

"As I reach a time of complete uncertainty, friends are my most precious asset."


"There is no distance too great between friends, for love gives wings to the heart."

"A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope."

! " I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. . . I'd like to be the help you've always been glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."

"A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you've been through a storm."

"A friend in kindergarten is the one who sat next to you and let you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one was left."

"True friendship is one that lasts even though one friend's sole has left this earth"

"A reassuring presence, A LIGHT when times are dark, A hand reaching out, Is what friendship is about."
Author Unknown

"We always thought we'd look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we'd look back on our laughter and cry."
-Author Unkown

When I'm asked what one happy thought is I always say knowing that no matter how big the fight is I will always havea best friend.

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

"I believe in Angels, the ones that heaven sends
I believe in Angels, but i call them my best friends"

"Friendship is like a popsicle on two sticks, when the friendship breaks, so does the popsicle, making everything a mess"

"Even on the road to hell a flower will make you smile."
-365Tao


"Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend's hand~ and hold on forever"
-Traci Brown

The following seven quotes were sent in by Susannah Thomson
"You are you and I am I,
You do your thing and I'll do mine,
and if in the end we meet up together,
it is beautiful."
-Boy Meets World

"Love doesn't make the world go round, it makes the ride worthwhile."
-F.P. Jones

"All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us."
-The Wonder Years

"We laughed
until we had to cry.
We gave love,
right down to our last goodbye.
We were the best
we thought we'd ever be
Just you and me,
for just a moment...

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
-Barbara DeAngelis

"A friend you have to buy, wont be worth what you pay for him."

"I can doubt my friends, but I can believe in our friendship."

"IF YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND AS THEY SHOULD BE, THEY WILL BECOME ONE OF THE CROWD. IF YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND AS THEY OUGHT TO BE TREATED, THEY WILL BECOME AN INDIVIDUAL."

"True friends, like ivy and the wall stand together and both together fall."

"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious things."
-Randolph S. Bourne

"With clothes the new are the best, with friends the old are the best."

"Friendship is like thighs, they are always sticking together."

"If you are going to gain anything in life, gain a friend, they will always be there, and that makes all the difference in the world."

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart"

"There is an exquisite melody in every heart. If we listen closely, we can hear each other's song. A friend knows the song in your heart and responds with Beatiful harmony."

"Friends are like flowers, beautiful flowers; friends are like flowers in the garden of life."

"True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had."


"Choose your friends carefully you never know who is on your side, and remember the truth shall prevail. "
-LINK

"False friends aren't always that bad because it shows you about yourself and teaches you to be strong and life goes on."
-Josh Wojo

"Remember that every good friend was once a stranger"

"They say 'you only regret the things you never do.' Then why do I regret every bad thing I did to you?"

"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-John Hay

"Hold true friends with both your hands."

"A part of you has grown in me, and so you see, it's you and me together forever. Never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."

"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
-Lee Iacocca

"No man is a failure who has friends."
-Clarence, the angel from "It's a Wonderful Life"

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief."
-Joseph Addison

"In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers."
-Pam Brown

"Friendship is the only rose without thorns."

"Friends are forever, you might lose them but you'll never forget them "

"Show me your best friend and I'll tell you who you are."

"They don't get mad when u call 11:00 at night to ask a qustion or just to talk"

"A ring is round it has no end and that is how long i will be your friend"

If I'm in heaven and your not there, I'd carve your name in golden chairs, for all the angels there to see, that I love you and you love me. If your not there on judgement day, I'll know you've gone the other way, so just to prove our love is true, I'd go to hell to be with you.
-Jackie Paul

"friend ship friendship we all need friend ship without friend ship who will we be what would we do without friend ship friend ship what will we do so give your friends lovers and family a great big hug and a big juicy kiss"

"I looked for my God; my God eluded me. I looked for my soul; my soul I could not see. I looked for a friend and I found all three."

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides it's evils; strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island.To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

A definition of friendship in one word would be: needed.

If you lose at something, a sport for example, a regular friend says 'good try'.. but a true friend says 'good try' and helps you to win the next time.

A friend is a shoulder to lean on, an ear to listen, and a heart to comfort.

"A friend is one who can touch your heart from acroos the world or across the room."

"A friend's hand is always there...you just have to reach out for it."

"Friendship is an art, few people have a natural talent for it."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between to friends"'

"As we grow older, things must change, but they don't always have to end. Even though it is different now, you will always be my friend"

"A friend is like a piece of pie. You never have too many, and they make you happy when your sad!"

"We laughed until we had to cry, we hugged right down to our last goodbye, we were the best we'll ever be, just for a moment, you and me"

"Friends stand by each other through thick and thin, every time you need me I will always be there for you. You make me hapy, you make me laugh and you are the best friend anyone can ever have."

"When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends not diamonds, riches, nor pearls, but the love of real true friends."

"Love is like a photo negative, it needs darkness to develop."

"Friends are like crayons they have many colors."

"We may laugh, we may cry but our friendship will never die."

"And Pooh said to Piglet "Life is so much friendlier with two."
-A.A.Miline

"Friends are like smakerals of fun. You can never have too many."
-Pooh

"Friends are those who make you laugh yet wipe your tears away. Just thought I'd share them with you-your page is pretty nice."
-Chatterbox

"Our friendship, like God's love, is a true, honest, and everlasting blessing"

Hold a friend's hand through times of trial, Let her find love through a hug and a smile, But also know when it is time to go- For each and every one of us must learn to grow.
-Sharon A. Heilbrunn

"A friend is never a friend untill you find them"

"Friendship is everlasting love"

"A true friend is the one you can see"

"Life is worth all those ups and downs with friends to share them with you!"

"A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts who you've become, and still invites you to grow"

"It's really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but its really sad when the best of friends become two strangers."

"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade."

"There are the people you have known forever. Who like..... know you... in this way that other people can't. Because they've seen you change. They've let you change."
-"My so called life"

"True friends, like ivy and the wall, both stand together, and together fall."

"The world would be so lonely in sunny hours or gray, Without the gift of friendship To help us every day."
-Hilda Brett Farr

"On the road between friends' houses, grass does not grow."

"Rekindled friendships often burn more brightly"

"No matter how strong a friendship may be it takes years to build the trust and seconds to destroy it"

"The only reason that forever friends don't exist is because forever doesn't exist"

"The best things in life aren't things...they're friends."

"Choose your friends by their character, and choose your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."

As we go on we remmeber all the times we had together come whatever well still be friends forever

"It's now who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts."

"The sign of a good friend is that he/she can read your mind and know what you're giong to say even before you begin to speak."


"Friends are like poems, you may never fully understand them, but you will always love them."

"One should try to make new friends everyday, without the comany of friends life is barren, and has no meaning. One should learn the art of making friends, because at the end of the life we remember our friends"

"When you're with someone you trustin, never needing to pretend, someone who helps you to know yourself, you know you're with a friend."
-Amanda Bradely

k this post became a bit too long
wud continue later