One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. – George Washington
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen
True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. – William Penn
A friend to all is a friend to none. – Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. – Euripides
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. – Charles Kingsley
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. – Ulysses S. Grant
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. – Helen Keller
The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. – Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de La Fontaine
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him. – Oscar Wilde
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. – Aristotle
