1. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.-Pythagoras
3. The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.-Ezra Taft Benson
4. In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.-John Churton Collins
5. Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.-Henry Drummond
6. I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.-Charles R. Swindoll
7. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.-Euripides
8. Friends are born, not made.-Henry Adams
9. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.-Helen Keller
10. Friends are the siblings God never gave us.-Mencius
11. Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.-Judith Viorst
12. To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.-Ian Ziering
13. True friends stab you in the front.-Oscar Wilde
14. Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.-Henry David Thoreau
15. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.-Amos Bronson Alcott
16. Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.-Tom Waits
17. The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.-Eleanor Mondale
18. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.-Giotto di Bondone
19. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.-Marlene Dietrich
20. Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.-Baltasar Gracian
21. When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.-W. Somerset Maugham
22. Friends are the sunshine of life.-John Hay
23. Good friends don’t have to visit each other every day.-Juan Manuel Santos
24. Friends are thieves of time.-Francis Bacon
25. The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.-Wilson Mizner
26. Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.-Avigdor Lieberman
27. Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.-Brooke Elliott
28. One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.-George Santayana
29. Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.-Arnold H. Glasow