Friends are the sunshine of life.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

The heart of a friend is a place where you can always find a home.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

True friends are like stars; you don't always see them, but you know they are always there.

Friendship based on business is better than business based on friendship.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting of the sun of life.

A friend's eye is a good mirror.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Finding a true friend is like finding a pearl in an ocean of sand.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The best mirror is an old friend.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils.

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

The discovery of a true friend is a life-changing event.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.

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

A friend is a second self.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Friendship is a golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Friendship is the wine of life.

In the prosperity of our friends, we all find profit.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Friendship is being there when someone needs you, but also being there when they don't.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met.

A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.

A true friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.

Friendship isn't a big thing — it's a million little things.

Friends are the storybooks of our lives.

A friend is one who knows where you are going and has a desire to go along.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far you are.

The friendship of a great man is a blessing from the Gods.

Friendship is a fire that warms the soul.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A good friend is like a warm coat in winter.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

A friend is someone who lets you have your say without taking it away from you.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.

The best part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

A friend is the person who knows you best and loves you most.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A friend is a jewel whose worth cannot be measured by any earthly price.

A friend is someone who makes it easy to be yourself.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Distance means so little when someone means so much.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Friends are the medicine for a wounded heart.

Friendship is a gift that is always in season.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.