My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has molded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
Victor Hugo

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.
Unknown

President Lincoln once said a few kind words about the Confederates. A woman retorted that she wondered how the president could speak kindly of his enemies, when he should rather wish them destroyed. “But ma’am,” Lincoln replied. “Do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?”

Unknown

Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out.  It is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others.
C. S. Lewis

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Augustine

A good friend will sharpen your character, draw your soul into the light, and challenge your heart to love in a greater way.
Unknown

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. Katherine Mansfield

I set out to find a friend but couldn’t find one; I set out to be a friend, and friends were everywhere.
Unknown

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts – and we are never, ever the same. Unknown

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
Wilma Askinas

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
Johann Von Schiller

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Jerome

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend is a poem.
Unknown

The mind never unbends itself so agreeably as in the conversation of a well-chosen friend.  There is indeed no blessing of life that is any way comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend.  It eases and unloads the mind, clears and improves the understanding, engenders thought and knowledge, animates virtue and good resolutions, soothes and allays the passions, and finds employment for most of the vacant hours of life.
Joseph Addison

Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a fire?
C. S. Lewis

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasow

My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson

To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
Unknown

Two great talkers will not travel far together.
George Borrow

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

We can never replace a friend.  When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different.  No one has a double in friendship.
Johann Von Schiller

The ornaments of a house are the friends who visit it.
Unknown

On my way back I met a little girl with a pitcher in her hand.  We both stopped, and with the instinctive, unconventional camaraderie of childhood plunged into an intimate, confidential conversation.  She was a jolly little soul, with black eyes and two long braids of black hair.  We told each other how old we were, and how many dolls we had, and almost everything else there was to tell except our names which neither of us thought about.  When we parted, I felt as though I were leaving a life long friend.  We never met again.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
Unknown