We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them — a diminishing number in my case.
- Evelyn Waugh

A friend is always good to have but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
- Dave Matthews

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
- Epicurus

I do then with my friends as I do with my books, I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency, any other station or capacity in social life.
- Sarah Ellis

Friendship should be ore than biting time can sever.
- T. S. Eliot

Friendship begins with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
 - George Eliot

Friendship is genuine when tow friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
- George Ebers

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.  It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.  Love between a many and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking.  But to have a friend and be true to each other under any and all trails is the mark of a man!
- Charles Alexander Eastman

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
- Norman Douglas

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous

Old friends pass away, new friends appear.  It's just like the days.  An old day passes, a new day arrives.  The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.
- Dalai Lama

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.
- Simon Dach

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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Fr. Jerome Cummings

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
- Frank Crane

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
- Sheryl Condie

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Real friends forgive you when you mess up. Superficial ones don't." -- Becky Povich