We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. - Francis Marion Crawford. View more images...

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. - William Shakespeare. View more images...

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. - Rachel Naomi Remen. View more images...

The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend. - Francis Bacon, Sr.. View more images...

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison. View more images...

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali. View more images...

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. - James Boswell. View more images...

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln. View more images...

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. - Margaret Cavendish. View more images...

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe. - John Mason Brown. View more images...

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. - William Hazlitt. View more images...

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. View more images...

It's poor friendship that needs to be constantly bought - Proverb. View more images...

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. - John Wooden. View more images...

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. - David Storey. View more images...