A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. - William Penn. View more images...

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. - Miguel de Cervantes. View more images...

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. - William James. View more images...

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes. - Mortal. View more images...

There is magic in long-distance friendships.  They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. - Diana Cortes. View more images...

We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial. - Raymond Joseph Teller. View more images...

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. - Unknown. View more images...

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. - Edith Wharton. View more images...

A hedge between keeps friendships green. - Anonymous. View more images...

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings. - Marilynne Robinson. View more images...

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - Jean de La Fontaine. View more images...

Friendship is the best palms for the pangs of disappointed love - Unknown. View more images...

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. - Mason Cooky. View more images...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. - Rachel Carson. View more images...

Great friendship is never without anxiety. - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal. View more images...