1. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. - Oscar Wilde 

3. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson 

4. True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde 

5. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. - Confucius 

6. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. - Confucius 

7. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde 

8. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

9. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller 

10. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. - Thomas Jefferson 

11. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis 

12. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. - Thomas Aquinas 

13. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer 

14. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. - Elie Wiesel 

15. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. - Henri Nouwen 

16. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen 

17. A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. - Charles Darwin 

18. The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses S. Grant 

19. Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

20. There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. - Paramahansa Yogananda 

21. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. - Jean de La Fontaine 

22. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. - Giotto di Bondone 

23. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau 

24. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau 

25. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. - Henry David Thoreau 

26. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau 

27. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. - Henry David Thoreau 

28. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin 

29. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. - Oscar Wilde 

30. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln 

31. The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

32. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

33. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

34. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

35. Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

36. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle 

37. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. - Aristotle 

38. He who hath many friends hath none. - Aristotle 

39. A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle 

40. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - Virginia Woolf 

41. To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. - Barack Obama 

42. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates 

43. I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. - Walt Whitman 

44. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. - Khalil Gibran 

45. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. - Khalil Gibran 

46. Your friend is your needs answered. - Khalil Gibran 

47. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. - Khalil Gibran 

48. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford 

49. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali 

50. 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 

51. I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. - Saint Augustine

 52. My friends are my estate. - Emily Dickinson 

53. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington 

54. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas A. Edison 

55. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

56. A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

57. There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. - William Butler Yeats 

58. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. - Unknown 

59. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. - Thomas Aquinas 

60. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

61. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake 

62. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia 

63. I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. - Charles R. Swindoll 

64. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison 

65. All you need to do to be my friend is like me. - Taylor Swift 

66. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker 

67. It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. - Zora Neale Hurston 

68. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller 

69. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard 

70. Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard 

71. A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

72. Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

73. Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

74. But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

75. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

76. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. - George Santayana 

77. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. - Robert E. Lee 

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

79. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust 

80. You win the victory when you yield to friends. - Sophocles 

81. A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

82. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham