I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
~Thomas A. Edison
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
~ Plutarch
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.
~ David Storey
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~ William Hazlitt
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
~ Samuel Pepys
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
~ Nigerian Proverb
In my friend, I find a second self.
~ Isabel Norton
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
