“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.” ~Plautus
“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” ~George MacDonald
“A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.” ~Unknown
“Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.” ~Robert Brault
“Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.” ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Yes 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. I don’t want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn’t bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.” ~Jeanette Winterson
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” ~John Leonard
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“True friends stab you in the front.” ~Oscar Wilde
“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” ~Rod McKuen,
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” ~Epicurus
“Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” ~American Proverb
“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.” ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” ~William Blake
“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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