A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
Octavia Butler
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
Alexander Dumas
There cannot be friendship without equality.
Swami Sivananda
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.
Jodie Foster
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
William Butler Yeats
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It’s not what we have, but who we have.
Winnie The Pooh
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
Winnie The Pooh
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.
Paulo Coelho
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman
A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.
Winnie The Pooh
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them.
Jim Morrison
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf