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There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.Linda Grayson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.Greg Tamblyn
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.Marlene Dietrich
Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.Unknown
You and I are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang.Unknown
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.Oprah Winfrey
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.Sicilian Proverb
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.Otto von Bismarck
Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’Cookie Monster
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.Bernard Meltzer
Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.W.H. Auden
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.Marcelene Cox
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.Charles Lamb
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.Clifton Fadiman
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.Robert Staughton Lynd
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.Laurence J. Peter
Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warm feeling inside.Unknown
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.Mark Twain
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.Edwin Arlington Robinson
A good friend will help you move. But best friend will help you move a dead body.Jim Hayes
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.Margaret Walker
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.J.K. Rowling
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.Benjamin Franklin
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.Jay McInerney
When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.Alice Duer Miller
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.Sarah Dessen
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good friends offer a shoulder when you need to cry. Best friends are there with a shovel to beat up who made you cry.Unknown
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.Ann Richards
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn’t exist.Aaron Machado
Best friends loan out DVDs knowing that they’ll never be seen again.Unknown
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.Samuel Butler
If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.Oprah Winfrey
Never tell your friends, “I told you so” – even when you did.Wendy Jean Smith
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.Diane Von Furstenberg
