•“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

•“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ” 
― Voltaire

•“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” 
― J.K. Rowling

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same” 
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

•“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche

•“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

•“ The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.” 

“There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.” 
― David Levithan

•“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.” 
― Albert Einstein

•“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.” 
― Charles M. Schulz

•“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” 
― Helen Keller

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

•“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.” 
― E.W. Howe

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.” 
― Thomas Jefferson

•“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.” 
― Rainer Maria Rilke

•“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.” 
― Jean de La Fontaine

•“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” 
― W. Somerset Maugham

•“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.” 
― Patrick Rothfuss

•“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away” 
― Sophocles

•“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien

•“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” 
― Aristotle

•“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” 
― Lois Wyse

•“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” 
― Bob Marley

•“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” 
― Abraham Lincoln

•“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.” 
― Anas Nin

•“I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.” 
― Bridget Davis

•“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” 
― Elie Wiesel

•“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” 
― William Shakespeare

•“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” 
― Richelle Mead

•“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

“Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.” 
― John O'Donohue

•“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

•“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 
― Elbert Hubbard

•“So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship, 
And warmth will come to you.” 
― Stephen Cosgrove

•“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

•“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” 
― Ray Bradbury

•“A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself” 
― Frances Ward Weller

•“Anything that is human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” 
― Fred Rogers

•“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” 
― Mark Twain

•“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” 
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

•“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are just passing time.” 
― Sarah Ockler

•“Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it's too homo for them to handle.” 
― Megan McCafferty

•“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.” 
― Carlos Ruiz Zafn

•“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.” 
― Jeanette Winterson

•“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.” 
― Jim Butcher

•“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.” 
― Jim Butcher

“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” 
― Mary Shelley

•“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.” 
― John O'Donohue

•“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.” 
― Leo Buscaglia

•“I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.” 
― Robin Jones Gunn

•“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.” 
― Richelle Mead

•“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.” 
― Shannon Hale

•“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.” 
― Ann Brashares

•“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” 
― Albert Einstein

•“After losing my job, I felt the only options available to me were razors, cyanide, or a shot to the face, until Renaldo, being the good friend that he is, reminded me how to tie a noose.” 
― Jarod Kintz