1. Friends are the family you choose. -Jess C. Scott
2. Friends are like rainbows – always there to cheer you up after a storm. -unknown
3. When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. -Epictetus
4. Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. -Aristotle
5. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. -Theophrastus
6. Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try. -Claude Mermet
7. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. -Pythagoras
8. Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. -C.J. Langenhoven
9. Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. -Aristotle
10. Friends show their love in times of trouble… -Euripides
11. Where there are friends, there is wealth. -Titus Maccius Plautus
12. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. -Thomas A. Edison
13. If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them. -Anon
14. Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life. -Anon
15. Friends are life’s finest blessings. “Friend” and “free” are from the same root word; perhaps because you are free to be yourself with a friend. -Author Unknown
16. Friends make memories…the heart preserves them. -Author Unknown
17. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. My friends are my estate. -Emily Dickinson
19. True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they’re never dead in your heart. -Author Unknown
20. True friends are those who lift you up when your heart’s wings forget how to fly. -Author Unknown
21. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. -John Churton Collins
22. All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two. -Thomas Jefferson
23. With true friends…even water drunk together is sweet enough. -Chinese Proverb
24. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. -Ed Cunningham
25. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. -Eustache Descamps
26. Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. -Henry Drummond
27. Friends are the most important ingredient in the recipe called life. -unknown
28. F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Fight for you.
Respect you.
Include you.
Encourage you.
Need you.
Deserve you.
Stand by you. -Unknown Author
29. Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them – your smile, your hope, and your courage. -Doe Zantamata
30. Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you. -Richelle E. Goodrich