1. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”– Walter Winchell
2. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”-Henry David Thoreau
3. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”– Ernest Hemingway
4. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”-Amy Poehler
5. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”– David Tyson
6. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”-David Tyson
7. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”– Jim Henson
8. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”-Jim Henson
9. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”– Thomas J. Watson
10. “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”-Oscar Wilde
11. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”– Oscar Wilde
12. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”– Arnold H. Glasgow
13. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”-Martin Luther King Jr.
14. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”-Oprah Winfrey
16. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”-Thomas J. Watson
17. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”– George Santayana
18. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”-Arnold H. Glasgow
19. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”– Socrates
20. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”-Arnold H. Glasgow
21. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”– Charles Lamb
22. “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”– Zig Ziglar
23. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”-Charles Lamb
24. “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
25. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”– Alice Walker
26. “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
27. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”– Ed Cunningham
28. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”– Elisabeth Foley
29. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”-Woodrow T. Wilson
30. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”— Oprah Winfrey
31. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”-Elisabeth Foley
32. “A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”– Arthur Brisbane
33. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”-John Tillotson
34. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”– Donald Miller
35. “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”-Charles Kingsley
36. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”– Maxwell Maltz
37. “The best time to make friends is before you need them.”-Ethel Barrymore
38. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”— Henry David Thoreau
39. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”-Henry David Thoreau
40. “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”— Joseph F. Newton Men
41. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”-Elbert Hubbard
42. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”– Donna Roberts
43. “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
44. “I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”-Robert Brault
45. “It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”– Marlene Dietrich
46. “Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.”-John O’Donohue
47. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”— Miles Franklin
48. “They make me stronger; they make me braver.”-Jane Fonda
49. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”– Abraham Lincoln
50. “Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
