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

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. -Ludwig van Beethoven

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. -John Christian Bovee

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

To your friends, you're like a trash bag; they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out. -Adam R. Gwizdala

The friendship that can cease has never been real. -Saint Jerome

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. -Henry Alfred Kissinger

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. -Dr. Laurence J. Peter

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable. -Ene Riisna

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. -Cliff Fadiman

Friends...they are always there for you and they help you realize that everything you want to be -- you already are. -Dawson's Creek

A friend is a gift you give yourself.  -Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.  -Walter Winchell

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. -Wilma Askinas

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.  -Frances Ward Weller

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

Friendship is more delicate than love. -Henry Lynch Piozzi

Parents start you off on life but friends get you through it. -Dee Chou

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.  -Woodrow Wilson

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. -Stone Temple Pilots

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. -Lee Iacocca

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.  It's not something you learn in school.  But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. -Muhammad Ali

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.  -Eleanor Roosevelt

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. -Henry David Thoreau

The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -Thomas Jones

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. -William Blake

A lost friendship is an enemy won. -Proverb

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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

Have patience with a friend rather than lose him forever. -Arab proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -Czech proverb

The road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb

A life without a friend is a life without sun. -German proverb

One who looks for a friend without faults will find none. -Hasidic saying

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

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. -Old proverb

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become and still, gently allows you to grow. -William Shakespeare

Nothing but Heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. -Titus Maccius Plautus

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

An argument needs no reason; nor any friendship. -Ibycus

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship. -Austin O'Malley

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. -Thomas Fuller

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

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving; make every day a holiday. -Amanda Bradley

If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. -Proverb

No friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. -Francois Mauriac

Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world.  -William James

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships.  It's painful for both sides.  The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. -W. Somerset Maugham

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -Henry David Thoreau

Friendship isn't a big thing - it is a million little things.

Friends help you through rough times, not put you through them.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and likes you anyway.

There are three types of friends: those like food, without which you can't live; those like medicine, which you need occasionally; and those like an illness, which you never want.

Friendship is like a glass ornament; once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

A simple friend has never seen you cry - a real friend has soggy shoulders from your tears.

A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument.  A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.

Real friends won't make you apologize for who you are.

Friends are like elevator buttons, they can either take you up or bring you down, choose wisely.

A friend is someone you can cheer up when you're down, not necessarily by solving your problems, but by making you laugh and forget them instead.

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

A good friend will support you in time of need, applaud you at times of success, and be there for you all the days of your life.

A good friend can live far away and still be close to your heart.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they are always there.

A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.

Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

Friends are like your second family - only closer!

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare.  False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

Friends are like condoms, they are there to protect you when things get a little hard.

May you always be able to count on one good friend.

If my best friend were the person I can always depend on, then my only best friend would be (insert name or person).

Be the kind of friend you would want.

The secret to friendship is being a good listener.

Friendship means you're never alone.

Friendship is a gift tied with an invisible golden bow.

Friendship is love with wings.

Friendship is like a bank account; you cannot continue to draw on it without making a deposit.

Friends are like money in the bank, longer you keep them, the more they are worth.

You'll never regret sharing a smile with a friend.

A ready smile and a warm heart will unlock the door to friendship.

Dreams shared with friends are dreams that survive in the light of day.

To express yourself to a friend is to reach out and hold hands with the universe.

Friendship holds love in its hands.

You can think aloud in the presence of a friend and not regret it.

Appreciate the gifts that each person brings to your friendship.

When you give the gift of friendship, it's never the wrong size.

Perhaps the greatest gift in the world is a trusted friend.

An act of compassion is a gift from one heart to another.

To share your joy may not cost anything, but the recipient knows its value.

Of all the ties that bind, friendship is the strongest. 

With clothes new are the best; with friends old are the best.

There is no friend like an old friend.

You may find friendship where you least expect it.

Choose friends who will bring out the best in you.

Friendships may be like the seasons, blowing hot and cold, ever changing, but always needed whatever the weather.

Tis better by far at the rainbows end to find not gold but the heart of a friend.

When it hurts to look back, and you are too scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

Without a world, there are no friends, but without friends, there is no world.

A person without friends is like a tree without roots.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

Boyfriends come and go, but friends are forever.

There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet.

It's funny how much people change in so little time, one minute they're your best friend, the next their your worst enemy.

You can't say you've lost a friend.  If friendship is capable of ending, it never existed.

It's so weird when strangers become best friends but it's even weirder when best friends become strangers.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

Friends are like the wind...they come and they go.

Sometimes I think we don't need anyone else in the world but then again who would we talk about.

I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for who I'm not.

Sitting in silence with a friend can speak volumes.

True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

True happiness consists not in a multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice of friends.

True friends are loving, true friends care, and at the end, the true friends are always there.

A memory lasts forever.  Never does it die.  True friends stay together and never say goodbye.

You will know your true friends indeed, only when you come to her in need.

You -may- forget the friends you *laughed* with, but you will -never- forget the friends you *cried* with.

Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart. 

Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

You helped me laugh, you dried my tears, because of you, I have no fears, together we live, together we grow, teaching each other what we must know, you came in my life, and I was blessed, I love you, you are the best, release my hand, and say good-bye, please my friend don't you cry, I promise you this, it's not the end 'cause like I said you're my best friend.

True friends...

Always have words of encouragement.

Love you unconditionally, faults and all.

Keep your secrets under lock and key. 

Light up your life when you're in the dark.

Know laughter can be the best medicine.

Are never far apart, even though oceans may come between them.

Weather the storm in search of the rainbow.