The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.