The best mirror is an old friend. 

By George Herbert

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. 

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. 

By Cicero

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

By Mark Twain

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

By Aristotle

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. 

By Benjamin Franklin

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. 

By Mother Teresa

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. 

By Eleanor Roosevelt

"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."

By William Shakespeare

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

By Oscar Wilde

A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon

By Emma Stacey

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

By Collins English Dictionary

A friend is a gift you give yourself. 

By Robert Louis Stevenson

It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. 

By Marlene Dietrick

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.

True friendship is never serene. 

By Mariede Svign

Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

By Mencius

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.

By Pizza Place Sign