Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough

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

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 WyseGBF

Friends are family you choose for yourself.  ~Author Unknown

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~George Santayana

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.  ~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.  ~Author Unknown

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

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  ~Author Unknown

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  ~Virginia WoolfGBF

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.  ~George MacDonald

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  ~Katherine MansfieldGBF

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan NortonGBF

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.  ~Author Unknown

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.  ~C.S. Lewis

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik

She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.  ~Toni Morrison, Beloved

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit

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