True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

(David Tyson Gentry)


If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

(Charlotte Bronte)


You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

(Woodrow Wilson)


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

(Dumas The Younger)


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)


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

(Ed Cunningham)


Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

(Louisa May Alcott)


Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

(Anna Cummins)

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The only way to have friends is to be one.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

(Unknown)

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

(Abraham Lincoln)


A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

(Fr. Jerome Cummings)


When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

(E. W. Howe)


There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

(Katherine Hathaway)

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

(Len Wein)

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

(Dale Carnegie)

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.

(Walt Whitman)

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

(Unknown)


Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


It's the ones you can call up at 4 : 00 a.m. that really matter.

(Marlene Dietrich)


Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

(Unknown)


One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

(Unknown)