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

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Author Unknown

A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.
Proverb

The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish Proverb

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Albert Camus

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Swedish Proverb

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 Nouwen

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller

A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca

‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Benjamin Franklin

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

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

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

No road is long with good company.
Turkish Proverb

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug,I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.
Author Unknown

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus