1. 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
2. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.-Aristotle
3. Hold a true friend with both your hands.-Nigerian Proverb
4. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-Walter Winchell
5. The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.-Baltasar Gracian
6. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.-Aesop
7. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.-Elisabeth Foley
8. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.-Octvaia Butler
9. Who is mighty? He who makes an enemy into a friend.-Hebrew (on friends and foes)
10. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
11. Keep your friendships in repair.-Samuel Butler
12. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.-Khalil Gibran
13. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.-Orson Welles
14. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.-Woodrow Wilson
15. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.-Anais Nin
16. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing-Elie Wiesel
17. Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.-Robert Brault
18. The language of friendship is not words but meanings.-Henry David Thoreau
19. To have a few amazing friends on this side of eternity, this sometimes grotesque amusement park, is the greatest joy.-Ann Lamott
20. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.-Arnold Glasgow
21. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.-Helen Keller
22. Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.-Anonymous
23. A true friend is the best Possession.-Benjamin Franklin
24. Friendship increases by visiting friends but visiting seldom.-Benjamin Franklin
25. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.-Mencius
26. Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.-Sun Tzu
27. Make a friend when you don’t need one.-Jamaican (on friendship)
28. No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.-Benjamin Franklin
29. One enemy is too many and a hundred friends too few.-Anonymous