"All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words."
--Rachel Naomi Remen

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."
--Samuel Johnson

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."
--Warren G. Harding

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

"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."
--Edgar A. Guest

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar."
--Robert Brault

"Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up."
--Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
--George Elliot

"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

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
--Dave Tyson Gentry

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
--Anonymous

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
--Robert Alan

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
--Eustace Budgell (1711)

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
--Samuel Johnson

"Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever."
--E. B. White

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
-- Walt Whitman

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
--George Washington

"A true friend shares freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
--William Penn

"True friendship is one soul shared by two bodies."
-- Mexican Proverb

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
--Albert Camus.

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out"
--unknown. grabed off a forwared email.

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best frineds listen to what you don't say."
--unknown. grabed off the same email as above.


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