“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort—the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person—having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” ~Dinah Craik (erroneously attributed to George Eliot), A Life for a Life

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.” ~Eugene Kennedy

“The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.” ~Aaron Machado

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.” ~Groucho Marx

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ~Walter Winchell

“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” ~Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Make new friends but keep the old;
one is silver, the other's gold.” ~anonymous

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” ~Abraham Lincoln

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.” ~William Butler Yeats

“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.” ~Robert Lynd



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