"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what
is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
"Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times"
Friendship is talking to your best friend without words."
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is
the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale
"Friendship without self interest is one of the
rare and beautiful things in life."
- James Francis Byrnes
"Time isn't what makes a friendship last...It's love and devotion that keeps the tie between souls."
"The best antiques are old friends."
"Material things can't make the soul whole. The only the love, trust, and loyalty of friends can do that."
"Friendship is not friendship without trust, without
it I walk alone."
- James P. Michels Jr.
"Friendship is the golden ribbon that ties the world together."
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive
each other's little failings.
Bruyere, Jean de la
Life is to be fortified by many friendships.—To
love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Smith, Sydney
That friendship will not continue to the end which is
begun for an end.
Quarles, Francis
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity;
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Colton, Caleb C.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the
walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the
object it supports.
Burton, Richard E.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us
while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the
shade.
Bovee, Christian Nestell
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in,
continue firm and constant.
Socrates