A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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