Albert Schweitzer

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

Mignon McLaughlin

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

Epicurus

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

John Leonard

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

Marlene Dietrich

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Marcel Proust

"Lots of people want 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."

Oprah Winfrey

"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."

Emil Ludwig

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."

Samuel Pepys

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

Plautus

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

George Santayana

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."

Emily Kimbrough

"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

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

Francesco Guicciardini

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

William Blake

"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Elbert Hubbard

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

"True friends stab you in the front."

Oscar Wilde