Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” —Dean Koontz

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” —Robert Brault

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” —Linda Grayson

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.” —Oscar Wilde

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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” —Richard Bach

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend depends how much you give ’em.” —Shel Silverstein

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” —Henry David Thoreau

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

1Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” —Oscar Wilde

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” —J.K. Rowling

There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” —Jane Austen

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” —Charles Lamb

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.” —Charles R. Swindoll

Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.” —Vincent van Gogh

Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had / I’ve been with you such a long time / you’re my sunshine / and I want you to know that my feelings are true / I really love you / Oh you’re my best friend.” —Queen, “You’re My Best Friend”

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” —Anna Taylor

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” —S.E. Hinton

Good friends help you find important things when you have lost them … your smile, your hope and your courage.” —Doe Zantamata

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” —Unknown

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” —Irish proverb

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” —Woodrow Wilson

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.” —Samuel Johnson

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” —Anaïs Nin

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

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” —Steve Maraboli

Friends make you smile—best friends make you giggle till you pee your pants.” —Terri Guillemets