"The best mirror is an old friend."
...Irish Blessing
'May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.'
» Arabian Proverb
"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
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
» Elbert Hubard
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
Mary Catherwood
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
C. S. Lewis
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
William Shakespeare
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
Cicero
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Albert Camus
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
Anonymous
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
Baltasar Gracian (1647)
"Friends are the sunshine of life."
John Hay (1871)
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer
"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad."
Arnold H. Glasgow
"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Edgar Watson Howe
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
Arnold Glasow
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Elisabeth Foley