“God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.”

Ethel Mumford

“Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?”

Sigismund

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

George Gordon Byron

“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”

Robert Bloch

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Walter Winchell

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”

Robert Brault

“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.”

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”

Valerie Lombardo

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

Margaret Runbeck

As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friends are the ones walking in.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance