"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
— Muhammad Ali

"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

"Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other."
— Mother Teresa

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher."
— Socrates

"Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire."
— David O. McKay

"" He was happily married - but his wife wasn't."
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— Victor Borge

"Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush."
— Melissa de la Cruz (Masquerade)

"The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

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— Sarah Orne

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
— Elbert Hubbard

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. "
— Charlotte Brontë

"Love, respect, friendship, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
— St. Jerome

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."
— Théophile Gautier

"A friend cannot be owned
That is plain to see
Friendships must be shared,
Just like our friend, Ruby"
— Stephen Cosgrove (Rhubarb)

"As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Friendship is the hardest leason to learn, They don't teach you it in school but if you don't know frinedship you don't know anything."
— Muhammed Ali

"You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride."
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

"God has brought us together as families to bring to pass His eternal purposes. We are part of this plan in this marriage relationship. let us love and respect and honor one another. We can do it, and we will be the better for it."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year)

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."
— Mae West

"There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain hes not the man she married?"
— Barbra Streisand

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."
— Rodney Dangerfield

"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up."
— Ogden Nash

"It's not your birthday that's important but what you do between your birthdays."
— Daniel E. Allen

"Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live."
— them

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

"The best mirror is an old friend."
— George Herbert

"I fall asleep with my friends around me, the only place i know. I'm going to call this home."
— Jimmy Eat World

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. "
— Arthur Brisbane

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
— John Churton Collins

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

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. "
— Ali bin Abi Thalib

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
— Jay McInerney (The Last of the Savages)

"'Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'
'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'"
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

"A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
— Louisa May Alcott