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 on friendship
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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen on friendship
True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde on friendship
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison on friendship
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn on friendship
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle on friendship
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle on friendship
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson on friendship
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller on friendship
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker on friendship
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 on friendship
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln on friendship
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 on friendship
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides on friendship
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard on friendship
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley on friendship
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 on friendship
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better. Plutarch on friendship
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane on friendship