"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa

"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

"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
- Sallust, Roman historian

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
- Nigerian Proverb

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln

"Life without a friend is death without a witness."
- Spanish Proverb

"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
- Unknown

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
- Confucius

"Give yourself a perk. Chat with an old friend over coffee."
- Thomas Kindkade

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Friends are born, not made."
- Henry Adams

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

"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

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
- Albert Schweitzer

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie

"Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
- Gravestone from the 1800s

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

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."
- William Blake

"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish novelist.

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
- Jacques Delille (1738-1813) French poet.

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) US poet & essayist.

"A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British lexicographer

"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer.

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
- George Washington

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (341-270 BC) Greek philosopher.

"Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
- Samuel Johnston

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides, Greek playwright

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
- Socrates, Greek philosopher

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
- Woodrow Wilson

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"Friendship is love without his wings"
- Lord Byron

"A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Artistotle

"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 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

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

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller

"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."
- Aristotle

"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
- Cicero

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
- William Arthur Ward

"Friendship? Yes Please."
- Charles Dickens

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.