Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Everyone wants 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.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.