I give you this flower, I hand you my hand. ~ John Marvin
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or will never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. ~ Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, 12/57
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Women put their hands all over each other and what is conveyed is nothing more than what is intended: feelings of genuine fondness and communion. ~ Robin Abcarian
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it. ~ Sylvia Bremer
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter. ~ James Fenimore Cooper
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of success in life. ~ Edward Everett Hale
Adversity does teach who your real friends are. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
There are friends, I think, we can't imagine living without. People who are sisters to us, or brothers. ~ Julie Reece Deaver
Friendship, “the wine of life,” should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed. ~ James Boswell
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ~ Pearl S. Buck
Woman reaches love through friendship; man reaches friendship through love. ~ Muhammad Hijazi