True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. – Dave Tyson Gentry
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
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. – Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. – Grace Pulpit
One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. – D.H. Lawrence
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
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. – Dorothy Parker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. – Virginia Woolf
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. – Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had. – Author Unknown
I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. – Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. – Author Unknown
It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. – Toni Morrison, Beloved
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. – Plautus
