* There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

* True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

* Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

* There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.
Kathy Kay Benudiz

* Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle

* Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
H. G. Bohn

* Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler

* I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
Lord Byron

* A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell (1763)

* Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell (1711)

* A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell

* One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides (408 B.C.)

* A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller (1732)

* My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol