The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. 
~Aristotle

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. 
~Arnold H. Glasgow

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 
~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. 
~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. 
~Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 
~William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. 
~Pam Brown

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. 
~George Santayana

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. 
~Donna Roberts

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.  ~Adabella Radici

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. 
~Samuel Johnson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. 
~Dave Tyson Gentry

You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. 
~Laurence J. Peter

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. 
~Grace Pulpit

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.  ~D.H. Lawrence

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

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.  ~Dorothy Parker

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  ~Virginia Woolf

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. 
~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. 

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. 
~Marlene Dietrich

She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.  ~Toni Morrison, Beloved

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. 
~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. 
~Plautus

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.  ~George MacDonald

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.

Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. 
~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Friendship is being close even when you are far apart
Love is when you can still feel their hand on your heart when they are not near

Friendship is hoping that they experience the very best
Love is when you bring them the very best

Friendship occupies your mind
Love occupies your soul

Friendship is knowing that you will always try to be there when in need
Love is when you will give up everything to be at their side

Friendship is a warm smile in the winter
Love is a warming touch that sends a pulse through your heart

Every day, every minute,
Every second is a gift from God.
You've got to dance like nobody's watching,
And love like it's never going to hurt.

People say true friends must always hold hands,
But true friends don't need to hold hands
Because they know the other
Hand will always be there.