“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” ~George Santayana
“A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.” ~Pam Brown
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” ~Donna Roberts
“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
“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.” ~Dave Tyson Gentry
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” ~Grace Pulpit
“One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.” ~D.H. Lawrence
“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
“There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.” ~Unknown
“The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.” ~ Unknown
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.” ~Robert Brault
“A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.” ~ Unknown
“It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.” ~Mignon McLaughlin
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” ~Marlene Dietrich