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

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

Yesterday brought the beginning, 
tomorrow brings the end, 
and somewhere in the middle 
we became the best of friends. 
~ Anonymous ~

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~ Emily Brontë ~

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. 
 ~ Anonymous ~

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.  
~ David Storey ~ 

There are big ships and there are small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.  
~ Anonymous ~

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure,
because, of all the things granted us by wisdom,
none is greater or better than friendship.
~ Pietro Aretino ~

Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss ~

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg 
even if you are half-cracked.  
~ Anonymous ~

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

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce 
the blessedness of the complete life, 
far the greatest is the possession of Friendship. 
~ Epicurus  ~ 

In my friend, I find a second self.  
~ Isabel Norton ~

All friendly feelings toward others 
come from the friendly feelings 
a person has for himself.
~ Aristotle ~ 

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
 
Don't walk behind me; 
I may not lead. 
Don't walk in front of me; 
I may not follow. 
Just walk beside me and be my friend. 
~ Albert Camus ~

Wishing to be friends is quick work, 
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. 
~ Aristotle ~

To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still
~ William Shakespeare ~

A good friend is a connection to life - 
a tie to the past, 
a road to the future, 
the key to sanity in a totally insane world 
~  Lois Wyse ~  

My father always used to say that when you die, 
if you've got five real friends, 
you've had a great life.
~ Lee Iacocca~

The best kind of friend is one who understands you 
even better than you understand yourself.
~ Unknown ~