1. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
- Walter Winchell
2. "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
- Elbert Hubbard
3. "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
- Arnold H. Glasow
4. "It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- John Leonard
5. "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
- Marlene Dietrich
6. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. "A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
- Bil Keane
8. "True friends stab you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
9. "The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert
10. "Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless."
- Unknown
11. "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
- Muhammad Ali
12. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein
14. "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
15. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
16. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides
17. "The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubbard
18. "Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."
- Lois L. Kaufman
19. "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
- Robert Brault
20. "Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief."
- Swedish proverb
21. "Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."
- Sicilian Proverb
22. "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
- Plutarch
23. "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
- Thomas A. Edison
24. "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."
- Oprah Winfrey
25. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
- Benjamin Disraeli
26. "True friendship is felt, not said."
- Mariecris Madayag
27. "Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
- Samuel Pepys
28. "One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
- George Santayana
29. "Life without a friend is like death without a witness."
- Spanish Proverb
30. "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
- Baltasar Gracian
31. "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
- Abraham Lincoln
32. "Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
- Shirley MacLaine
33. "Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
- Elbert Hubbard
34. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
- Thomas Aquinas
35. "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
36. "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
- Thomas Jefferson
37. "The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
- Mark Twain
38. "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale
39. "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
- Buddha
40. "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
41. "Friendship is essentially a partnership."
- Aristotle
42. "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. "The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome
44. "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
45. "The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."
- Giotto di Bondone
46. "A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."
- Arabian Proverb
47. "Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
- Kahil Gibran
48. "One who looks for a friend without faults will have none."
- Hasidic Saying
49. "Friends are the siblings God forgot to give us."
- Unknown
50. "Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams
51. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
- Aristotle
52. "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
53. "Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."
- Cindy Lew
54. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- Freidrich Nietzsche
55. "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
- La Rochefoucauld
56. "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
- Unknown
57. "Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things."
- Unknown
58. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."
- Douglas Pagels
59. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
- Alice Walker
60. "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
- Doug Larson
61. "God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself."
- Unknown
62. "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
- Indira Gandhi
63. "I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."
- Virginia Woolf
64. "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
65. "A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times."
- Molly Oliver
66. "Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."
- Baltasar Gracian
67. "A friend to all is a friend to none."
- Aristotle
68. "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner
69. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
- Elizabeth Foley
70. "Don't pity the girl with one true friend. Envy her. Pity the girl with just a thousand acquaintances."
- Katie Obenchain
71. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
72. "The friendship isn't worth the tears unless the friend is."
- Kellina Filbin
73. "When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you, and your best friend will be there."
- Unknown
74. "Friends are like stars... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there."
- Hulali Luta
75. "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
- Japanese Proverb
77. "A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets."
- Unknown
78. "The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
- George Santayana
79. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
80. "Sometimes life is hard to bear when a friend is just not there."
- William Franc
81. "Sometimes in life, you find a special friend. Someone who changes your life just by being a part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop. Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is forever friendship. When you're down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirit and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times. If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows. If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on. Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay. And if you find such a friend, you feel happy and complete because you need not worry. You have a forever friend, and forever has no end."
- Unknown
82. "A friend is a person who knows what you are saying, even if you're not talking."
- Sarah Bennett
83. "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
- George Eliot
84. "The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
- Cicero
85. "Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
86. "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Aristotle
87. "You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust."
- David Shore
88. "A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
- Homer
89. "An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."
- Proverbs 24:26
90. "To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."
- Theodore H. White
91. "A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place."
- Sandy Ratliff
92. "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
- La Rochefoucauld
93. "The secret to friendship is being a good listener."
- Unknown
94. "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
- Pietro Aretino
95. "A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
- Unknown
96. "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
- Sydney Smith
97. "I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you."
- Ann Richards
98. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
99. "There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves."
- Laura Moncur
100. "Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little."
- E.W. Howe
- Walter Winchell
2. "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
- Elbert Hubbard
3. "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
- Arnold H. Glasow
4. "It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- John Leonard
5. "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
- Marlene Dietrich
6. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. "A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
- Bil Keane
8. "True friends stab you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
9. "The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert
10. "Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless."
- Unknown
11. "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
- Muhammad Ali
12. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein
14. "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
15. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
16. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides
17. "The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubbard
18. "Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."
- Lois L. Kaufman
19. "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
- Robert Brault
20. "Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief."
- Swedish proverb
21. "Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."
- Sicilian Proverb
22. "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
- Plutarch
23. "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
- Thomas A. Edison
24. "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."
- Oprah Winfrey
25. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
- Benjamin Disraeli
26. "True friendship is felt, not said."
- Mariecris Madayag
27. "Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
- Samuel Pepys
28. "One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
- George Santayana
29. "Life without a friend is like death without a witness."
- Spanish Proverb
30. "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
- Baltasar Gracian
31. "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
- Abraham Lincoln
32. "Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
- Shirley MacLaine
33. "Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
- Elbert Hubbard
34. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
- Thomas Aquinas
35. "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
36. "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
- Thomas Jefferson
37. "The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
- Mark Twain
38. "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale
39. "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
- Buddha
40. "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
41. "Friendship is essentially a partnership."
- Aristotle
42. "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. "The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome
44. "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
45. "The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."
- Giotto di Bondone
46. "A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."
- Arabian Proverb
47. "Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
- Kahil Gibran
48. "One who looks for a friend without faults will have none."
- Hasidic Saying
49. "Friends are the siblings God forgot to give us."
- Unknown
50. "Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams
51. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
- Aristotle
52. "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
53. "Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."
- Cindy Lew
54. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- Freidrich Nietzsche
55. "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
- La Rochefoucauld
56. "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
- Unknown
57. "Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things."
- Unknown
58. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."
- Douglas Pagels
59. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
- Alice Walker
60. "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
- Doug Larson
61. "God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself."
- Unknown
62. "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
- Indira Gandhi
63. "I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."
- Virginia Woolf
64. "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
65. "A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times."
- Molly Oliver
66. "Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."
- Baltasar Gracian
67. "A friend to all is a friend to none."
- Aristotle
68. "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner
69. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
- Elizabeth Foley
70. "Don't pity the girl with one true friend. Envy her. Pity the girl with just a thousand acquaintances."
- Katie Obenchain
71. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
72. "The friendship isn't worth the tears unless the friend is."
- Kellina Filbin
73. "When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you, and your best friend will be there."
- Unknown
74. "Friends are like stars... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there."
- Hulali Luta
75. "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
- Japanese Proverb
77. "A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets."
- Unknown
78. "The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
- George Santayana
79. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
80. "Sometimes life is hard to bear when a friend is just not there."
- William Franc
81. "Sometimes in life, you find a special friend. Someone who changes your life just by being a part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop. Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is forever friendship. When you're down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirit and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times. If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows. If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on. Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay. And if you find such a friend, you feel happy and complete because you need not worry. You have a forever friend, and forever has no end."
- Unknown
82. "A friend is a person who knows what you are saying, even if you're not talking."
- Sarah Bennett
83. "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
- George Eliot
84. "The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
- Cicero
85. "Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
86. "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Aristotle
87. "You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust."
- David Shore
88. "A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
- Homer
89. "An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."
- Proverbs 24:26
90. "To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."
- Theodore H. White
91. "A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place."
- Sandy Ratliff
92. "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
- La Rochefoucauld
93. "The secret to friendship is being a good listener."
- Unknown
94. "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
- Pietro Aretino
95. "A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
- Unknown
96. "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
- Sydney Smith
97. "I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you."
- Ann Richards
98. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
99. "There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves."
- Laura Moncur
100. "Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little."
- E.W. Howe