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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – George MacDonald

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. – Author Unknown

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. – Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The function of a friend is not to have a function. – Detlef Cordes, detlefcordes.org

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French b

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. – Abraham Lincoln

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. – John Leonard

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. – Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend (Thank you, Carolyn)

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. – Epicurus

You always think you could have done more. That’s why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. – American Proverb

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. – William Blake

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Cu

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. – Attributed to Heather Pryor

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else’s. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Oliver Wendell Holmes