Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Aaron Machado

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anaïs Nin

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Norton

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Samuel Paterson