The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.--G. T. Hewitt

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.--Abraham Lincoln

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.--Marie Louise De La Ramee (aka Ouida)

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.--Unknown

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.--Richard Bach (Illusions)

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.--Albert Camus

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.--Anais Nin

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.--Christian Nevell Bovee

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.--Jacques Delille (Malheur et Pitié)

For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.--Christina Rosetti

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.--Anonymous

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't.--Bern Williams 

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

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?--Kahlil Gibran

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.--Ed Cunningham

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.--Pam Brown

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.--Swedish proverb

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn

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

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

The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.--Sarah Orne Jewett

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.--James Howell ("French" Paroimiographia)

Hold a true friend with both hands.--Nigerian proverb

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.--Proverbs 24:26

I can trust my friends... These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.--Cher

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.--Charles R. Swindoll

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.--Jimmy Buffet (A Pirate Looks At 50)

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.--Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.--Charlotte Bronte

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)

In my friend, I find a second self.--Isabel Norton

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.--Epicurus

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.--Zora Neale Hurston

It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset.--Erynn Miller

It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.-- Marlene Dietrich (Popcorn in Paradise)

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.--Oscar Wilde

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.--Washington Irving

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.--A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out to ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.--Madame de Tencin

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.--Henry David Thoreau

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right 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 the breath of kindness blow the rest away...--Dinah Mulock

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.--Henry Brooks Adams

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-Lytton

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.--Edith Wharton

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.--Thomas Jefferson

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.--Pearl S. Buck

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.--Katherine Mansfield

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.--Walter Winchell

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but mostly it will be spilled. A relationships is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.--Kahlil Jamison

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.--Anonymous

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.--Louisa May Alcott

There is a point where you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. It doesn't happen for everyone--but it did for Mom and me.--Jamie Lee Curtis

To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.--Napoleon I

To have a good friend is one of the highest delights in life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.--Anonymous

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.--Joshua Loth Liebman

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.--Jennie Jerome Churchill

A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.--Christi Mary Warner

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!--Doug Larson

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.--Heather Pryor

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

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.--Charles Caleb Colton

Two shorten the road.--Irish proverb

Value the friends you have while they're around, you never know when they'll be gone.--Darin Gosling

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.-- Barbara Colorose

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.--Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!--Colette

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.--Aristotle

When 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

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads, or frostwork, but the solidest things we know. A friend is the first person who come in when the whole world has gone out.--Anonymous

Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there,
You've got a friend.--Carol King

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

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

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you--without these friendships--life, what cauchemar!--T. S. Eliot

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.--Ivan Turgenev