"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it
needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly
presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out
completely."

"Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there."

"When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there."

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

"... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of
will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or
of
obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering
worth
the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the
shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the
corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love
to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not
a
Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that
dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with
them."

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it
needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly
presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."

"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 man and a woman is founded on the mating
instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a
friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!"

"Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without
some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more
courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I
went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the
glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all
that
your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I
so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious
friend."

"There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

"A friend is one who knows you and loves one just the same."

"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?"

"A friend is someone you'll spend time with when you have a day to live, not an hour to kill."

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being."

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere."

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is."

"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."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 now knowing, not
curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our
powerlessness,
that is a friend who cares."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a
plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes."

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are
my energy."

"Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend."

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not
something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning
of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

"Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye."

"To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world."

"Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never."

"A friend is one before whom you may think aloud."

"He is best in humanity who has no enemy among the living beings."

"In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips."