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

Unknown

" Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

Albert Camus

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

Submitted by Donna Roberts

" A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." Len Wein

Submitted by Paulo Louro

" The only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Elbert Hubbard

" A friend in need is a friend indeed." John Ray

" A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself."

Frances Ward Weller

" A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what."

Kayla

" Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

Mencius

" True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

Charles Caleb Colton

" Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Anais Nin

" My friends are my estate." Emily Dickinson

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" It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

John Leonard

" I get by with a little help from my friends."

John Lennon

" Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." Bible: Ecclesiastes

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" When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."

Anatole Broyard

" Friends are born, not made."

Henry Adams

" This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."

Francis Bacon

" Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."

Tehyi Hsieh

" The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."

Edward Everett Hale

" Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

" The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" Henry David Thoreau