1. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.-Elbert Hubbard
2. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.-Bernard Meltzer
3. You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.-Laurence J. Peter
4. The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.-Mark Twain
5. A good friend will help you move. But best friend will help you move a dead body.-Jim Hayes
6. If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.-Oprah Winfrey
7. A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.-Shannon L. Alder
8. Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.-Muhammad Ali
9. Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.-Emily Wing Smith
10. My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We’re all protective of the self.-Neil LaBute
11. That’s the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don’t have to explain it.-Susane Colasanti
12. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.-Criss Jami
13. It’s one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them.-Cyril Connolly
15. A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in silence.-Sheryl Condie
16. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.-Henry David Thoreau
17. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.-Helen Keller
18. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.-Elie Wiesel
19. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.-Dave Tyson Gentry
20. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.-William Shakespeare
21. Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.-Dave Brenner
22. The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.-Shanna Rodriguez
23. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.-Albert Camus
24. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.-Elizabeth Foley
25. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.-Grace Pulpit
26. Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.-Otto von Bismarck
27. A friend is a person who knows what you are saying, even if you’re not talking.-Sarah Bennett
28. Friends are great. Friends are wonderful. Friends who can cook are like winning the lottery.-Greg Tamblyn
29. A friend that ain’t in need is a friend indeed.-Kin Hubbard
30. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, unless your friends are on twitter.-Greg Tamblyn