Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
William Penn
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
Samuel Johnson
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech. Proverb
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward Bulwer-Lytto
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
I have lost friends, some by dath, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
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 Carver
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Good friends are good for your health.
Irwin Sarason
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb