Khalil Gibran

"And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- 'The Prophet' by Khalil Gibran

J. K. Rowling

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

- Dr. Seuss, author and cartoonist

Carl Jung

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Aristotle

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Oscar Wilde

“True friends stab you in the front.”

 - Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Graham Greene

"I can believe only in love that strikes suddenly out of a clear sky:
I do not believe in the slow germination of friendship
Or one that asks 'why?'
Because our love came savagely, suddenly, like an actor of war,
I cannot conceive a love that rises gently and subsides without a scar."

- Graham Greene, author, playwright, literary critic

Charlotte Bronte

"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."

- Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"

Albert Camus

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher, journalist

Cicero

"Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

- Cicero, ancient Roman orator, politician and author

Jennifer Johnston

"Real friendship admits recognition of the ugly as well as the beautiful."

- 'How Many Miles To Babylon?' by Jennifer Johnston

Jane Austen

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

- "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen, author

Jane Austen

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."

- Jane Austen, author

Aristotle

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends"

- Aristotle, philosopher

Ovid

"Love will enter cloaked friendship's name."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

Orson Welles

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

- Orson Welles, actor, director, writer, producer

Ann Landers

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

- Ann Landers, advice columnist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher and poet