Friends

1. It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.  Epicurus
2. A friend is a gift you give yourself.  Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  Eustache Deschamps
4. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.  Frank Crane
6. The road to a friend’s house is never long.  Danish Proverb
7. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.   Henry David Thoreau
8. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.  Robert Louis Stevenson
9. 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
10. 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
11. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.  Barbara Kingsolver
12. It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  John Leonard
13. Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  Sicilian Proverb
14. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  Donna Roberts
15. A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.  Frances Ward Weller
16. ‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  Benjamin Franklin 

Best Friends 

1. Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.  Unknown
2. The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch swing with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve ever had.  Unknown
3. Many people will walk in and out of you life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.  Anonymous
4. A best friend stands by you
   When no one else cares
   Understands you
   When no one else tries
   Believes in you
   When no one else does.  Unknown
5. Everyone has a best friend during each stage of life – only a precious few have the same one.  Unknown
6. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.  Henry Ford
7. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.  Anonymous
8. Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.  Unknown
9. I’ve learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.  Unknown
10. Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!  George Eliot
11. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  Arnold Glasow
12. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  Elisabeth Foley
13. Good friends are like stars-you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.  Anonymous
14. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.  Walter Winchell
15. My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.  Lee Iacocca
16. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  Plautus 

Friendships 

1. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship.  St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  George Eliot
4. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.  Anonymous
5. Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.  Unknown
6. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  Katherine Mansfield
7. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.  Joseph Addison
8. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.  Kahlil Gibran
9. Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.  Unknown
10. 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
11. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.  Charles Caleb Colton
12. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.  Tim McGraw