- Euripides

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

- H. L. Mencken

"Optimist — The sort of man who marries his sister's best friend".

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Thomas F. Jones, Jr.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

- Jeff Wayman

"A friend is one who would help you move. A best friend is one who would help you move a body".

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all—friends?

- Nathaniel Emmons

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. — Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

- André Gide

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs to life under a strain even better than under a caress.