Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
- Khalil Gibran
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
- William Butler Yeats
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- Thomas Aquinas
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
My friends are my estate.
- Emily Dickinson
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
- Walt Whitman
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
- Plutarch
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
- Ulysses S. Grant
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.
- Henri Nouwen
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
- Confucius
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
- King Solomon
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
- Abraham Lincoln
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasow
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
- Toni Morrison
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its 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.
- Baltasar Gracian
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
- Herodotus
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
- Jim Morrison
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
- Chanakya
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
- Taylor Swift
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Octavia E. Butler
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
- Jean de La Fontaine
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
- Thomas Fuller
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
- Washington Irving
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
- Margaret Walker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
- Virginia Woolf
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
- Elie Wiesel
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
- Dag Hammarskjold
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
- Len Wein
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- William Penn
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
- Elizabeth Taylor
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
- Henry Van Dyke
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
- Jodie Foster
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Unknown
Friendship and money: oil and water.
- Mario Puzo
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
- Robert E. Lee
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- E. W. Howe
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
- Doug Larson
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
- Barack Obama
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
- Giotto di Bondone
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
- W. Somerset Maugham
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
- Saint Francis de Sales
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Joseph Roux
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
- Sophocles
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
- Herman Melville
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
- Justin Bieber
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
- Saint Augustine
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
- Richard Burton
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
- Eugene Kennedy
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
- Katherine Mansfield
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson