A friend is someone to whom one can pour out
all the contents of one's heart,
Chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands
will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and
with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
-Arabian Proverb

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 the heart run over.
-James Boswell

A friend is that one word "Hello" over the phone that can make you feel better
than 10 minutes of conversation with anyone else.

It is not so much our friends help that help us as the confident knowledge
that they will help us.
-Epicurus

True friendship is never serene.
-Marquise de Sevigne

A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
-Ecclesiastes 9:10

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
speak them now instead.
-Anna Cummins

A friendship will be young after the lapse of a century; a passion is old
at the end of three months.
-Madame Swetchine

The difference between men friends and women friends, is that men tend
to do things together, and women tend to just be together.
-Art Jahnke

The ornaments of our house are the friends that frequent it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is love with understanding.
-Ancient Proverb

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
-Nigerian Proverb