"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-John Hay

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

"Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow."
- Samuel Paterson

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-Mark Twain

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
-Woodrow Wilson

"Where there are friends, there is wealth."
-Titus Maccius Plautus

"My friends are my estate."
-Emily Dickinson

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."
-Walter Winchell

“We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.”
-Jeanette Winterson

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
-Anonymous

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
-John Lennon

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
-Mary Catherwood

"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
-Collins English Dictionary

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
-Oscar Wilde

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
-William Shakespeare

"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."
-Anonymous

"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer."
-Anonymous