"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
- Kahil Gibran

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
- Walt Whitman

"True friendship is never serene."
- Marquise de Sevigne

"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
- Anatole Broyard

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln

"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."
- Albert Camus

"You cannot say you've lost a friend. If a friendship is capable of ending, it is because it never existed."
- Mayza Blanco Martinez

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
- Alice Walker

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

"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

"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson

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

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein

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

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Lysha

"It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
- Shelly

"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner

"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
- Thomas Jefferson

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
- Francoise Sagan

"There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
- Bejamin Disraeli

"Friends are born, not made."
- Henry Adams

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
- Francis Bacon

"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Jasmine Fitzwilliam

"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- Steve

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- Dior Yamasaki

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