How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realise we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsler

A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it. The Optimism Magazine

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

Arnold H Glasgow

The friend hears the song in my heart and sing it to me when my memory fails.

Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook

The surest way to lose a friend is to tell them something for their own good.

Sid Ascher

The friendship that can come to an end,

never really began. Pubilius Syrus, Moral Sayings

Never apologise for your terrible friends. We are all somebody's terrible friends.

J Gallagher, Dean of Trinity

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed.

Kin Hubbard

Be cautious in choosing friends, and be even more cautious in changing them.

The worst solitude is to be destitude of sincere frienship.

Francis Bacon

Everybody should have at least two friends - one to talk to

and one to talk about.

Never exaggerate your faults - leave that for your friends.

You will never have a friend if you must have one without a fault.

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

Ben Jonson

People who can hold their tongues rarely have any trouble holding their friends.

Of my friends I am the only one I have left.

Terence

If anything lucky happens to you, don't forget to tell your friends in order to annoy them.

A real friend will tell you when you have spinach stuck in your teeth.

Close your eyes to the faults of others and watch the doors of friendship swing wide.

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

Marlene Dietrich

I no doubt deserve my enemies, but I don't believe

I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman