My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, 2011
Friendship is a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Friendship is Love, without his wings. – Lord Byron, L’Amitié est l’Amour sans Ailes
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. – William Penn
We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson
A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. – Lois Wyse
The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. – Frances Ward Weller
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
It’s not how many friends you can count, it’s how many of those you can count on. – Anthony Liccione
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. – Diana Cortes
It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends. – Euripides
If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me. – Author Unknown
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. – Author Unknown
