Alice Duer Miller

"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."

Douglas Pagels

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

Elbert Hubbard

"A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers."

Pam Brown

"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

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

Arnold H. Glasow

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

Buddha

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

George Washington

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

Thomas Jefferson

"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."

Alice Duer Miller

"Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you."

Alice Duer Miller

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

Shirley MacLaine

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

Mencius

"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

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

Muhammad Ali

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

Katherine Mansfield

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

Plutarch

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."

Thomas A. Edison

"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

"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

"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."

Alice Duer Miller