Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

My friends are my estate.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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 bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.