Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

Steve Maraboli

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Sylvia Plath

No road is long with good company.

Turkish Proverb

Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.

Virginia Woolfe

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.

Waqar Ahmed

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

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

Woodrow T. Wilson

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone.

Maxwell Maltz

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Henri Nouwen

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

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.

Jim Henson

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Socrates

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

A good friend can tell you what the matter with you is in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Nicole Richie

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

Unknown

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Henry Ford

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Mencius

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.

Irish Proverb

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

Oscar Wilde

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

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.

Clifton Fadiman

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

Arnold H. Glasgow

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

There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

Jane Austen

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Eugene Kennedy

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham

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

Charles Kingsley

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Donna Roberts

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Alexander Dumas

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.

John Tillotson

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Ethel Barrymore