Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.