A true friend is someone who is there for you when hed rather be anywhere else. – Len Wein
When you choose your friends, dont be short-changed by choosing personality over character. – W. Somerset Maugham
Its the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich
If its very painful for you to criticize your friends – youre safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, thats the time to hold your tongue. – Alice Duer Miller
Lovers have a right to betray you… friends dont. – Judy Holliday
When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – E. W. Howe
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you dont need any fingers. – Larry Flynt
I think its important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. – Jennifer Aniston
Friendship is two-sided. It isnt a friend just because someones doing something nice for you. Thats a nice person. Theres friendship when you do for each other. Its like marriage – its two-sided. – John Wooden
Ones life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. – Simone de Beauvoir
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You cant have too many friends because then youre just not really friends. – Truman Capote
Dont flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that Ive ever thought Id have. – Ernie Banks
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, youre actually helping to make America stronger. – Michelle Obama
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that youre suddenly eager to know him or her even better. – Zhang Ziyi
She discovered with great delight that one does not love ones children just because they are ones children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, were all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything weve done all our lives pointless. – Neale Donald Walsch
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just dont know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do. – Marion Cotillard
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. – Austin OMalley
