Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

- Anonymous

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

- Dave Matthews Band

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

- Anonymous

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

- Tim McGraw

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Nigerian Proverb

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

- Anonymous

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

- Lee Iacocca

It's nice to have a laugh together sometimes, but to be real friends, folks have to weep together.

-Anonymous

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Windrell

In prosperity our friends know us; In adversity we know our friends.

- J. M. Barrie

Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts.

- M. L. Runbeck

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere; before him, I may think aloud.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permenant job.

-Anonymous

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

- J. F. Newston

If you have one true friend, you have more then your fair share.

-Thomas Fuller

Ah! How good it feels, the hand of an old friend.

- Longfellow

We cannot tell the precise moment when FRIENDSHIP is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

- James Boswell

A blessed thing is for any man or woman to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and the worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in the day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in the day of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

- Kingsley

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.

- Kathleen Grove

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

- Robin Morgan

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.

-Amanda Bradley

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a seperate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

-Edith Wharton

Who finds a faithful friend finds a treasure.

-Jewish saying

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

- Eustace Budgell

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

- Merry Browne

In a friend you find a second self.

- Isabelle Norton