Fidelity

"I have no talent for making new friends but, oh, such genius for fidelity to old ones."
Daphne Du Maurier

Sound Health

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

Charles Caleb Colton

Old Friends

"With clothes the new are best,
with friends the old are best."

Chinese Proverb

Spectacle

"Treat your friend as a spectacle."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Means of Friends

"When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them."

Edvard Hagerup Grieg

Great Life

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. 

Lee Iacocca

Meandering River

"Friendship is a meandering river whose course can never be diverted and whose current should not be hastened."

Margaret Powell

Great Friends

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

-- G. Randolf

Similarities

"Similarities create friendships while differences hold them together."

-- Anon

Fence

"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."

-- Czech Proverb

Find me yours

"Never shall I forget the times I spent with you, 

continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

-- Ludwig Van Beethoven

The Ornament

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are like Melons

"Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good you must a hundred try."
-- Claude Mermet

Wish

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."

-- Richard Bach

Choose Live

"Without friends no one would choose to live."
-- Aristotle

Bouquet

"Plant a seed of friendship, reap a bouquet of happiness."
-- Lois L. Kaufman

Present

"A friend is a present you give to yourself."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Worth

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

-- Euripides

Choices

"My friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought."

-- Henry David Thoreau

Friend Suffer

"A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than watch their friend suffer."
-- Amanda Gier