God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
- Ethel Watts Mumford
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Anonymous
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
- Russian Proverb
The time to make friends is before you need them.
- Traditional Proverb
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
- Egyptian Proverb
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Fr. Jerome Cummings
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
- Michael Johnson