" The friend who can be silent with us in our moments of despair or      confusion, who can stay with us in times of grief and bereavement      - who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face      us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares         --Henri Nouwen

" A true friend is someone who is there for you ~      when he'd rather be anywhere else."   -Len Wein

" It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."       --Goethe

" A friend is one before whom I may think aloud "       --Ralph Waldo Emerson

" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford      to be stupid with them.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too."         -Thomas Fuller

" He makes no friend who never made a foe. "      -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" Friendship admits differences of character, as love does that      of sex"       --Anon

" It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."        --William Blake

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates     your successes."     ---Doug Larson

" So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,      I should  say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is      useless while he has a friend."     --Robert Louis Stevenson

" A Friend is a present which you give yourself."           --Robert Louis Stevenson

" Friendship is warm conversation on a cold, wintry day."        --Unknown

" He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud."         --Anonymous

" A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of       one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest      of hands will take and  sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and      with a breath of kindness... blow the rest away."    -Anonymous

" A friendship like love is warm; A love like friendship is steady."       -- Thomas Moore

" What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."       --Aristotle.

"Don't walk behind me I will not lead, don't walk in front of me     I will not follow, just walk beside me and be my friend."        --Unknown

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is     comfortable."      --unknown

" Every man should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury      the faults of his friends"      ---Henry Brooks Adams

" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature"         -Ralph Waldo Emerson

" There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends."

" Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not    something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the    meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."         -Muhammad Ali

" True friends stab you in the front."     -Oscar Wilde

" A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."      -Elbert Hubbard