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

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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

"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)

"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

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

"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)

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

"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

"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

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

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."
— Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

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

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

"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

"This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure."
— James Lecesne

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

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

"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"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

"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. 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 Wendall Holmes

"Ointment and perfume rejoice thy heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. ~~Proverbs 27:9
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— King Solomon

"Wenn ich keine Freunde habe, habe ich nichts."
— Unbekannt

"I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit."
— Brian Thompson (A MONKEY AMONG CROCODILES)

"Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzens kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast."
— Unbekannt

"WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness
chasing,
Fulfilling our foray."
— Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

"I sew his ears on from time to time, sure."
— Patrick O'Brian (Post Captain)