I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. -- Walt Whitman
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. -- Anatole Broyard
Friends are born, not made. -- Henry Adams
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half. -- Francis Bacon
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose. -- Tehyi Hsieh
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. -- Edward Everett Hale
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? -- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter. -- James Fenimore Cooper
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. -- James Francis Byrnes
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
-- Anna Cummins
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. -- Henry Brooks Adams
Keep your eyes upon me, keep me in your sight, Help me don the crooked road, lead me to the light. The road I'm on is dark, I'm not sure if I know the way, Yet with you right beside me, I'm certain I won't stray. Protect me from the world, I know we'll make it through, Give me all the strength I need.....Let me lean on you." -- Megan Stroup
No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each other's worth. -- Robert Southey
The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. -- Elizabeth Foley
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend...once in a lifetime. -- The Little Rascals Movie
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart. -- Kathleen Grove
When I'm asked what one happy thought is, I always say knowing that no matter how big the fight is, I will always have a best friend. -- Smitten_Kitten
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious things. -- Randolph S. Bourne
Compilation Courtesy: Aparna Chatterjee
