(pet-friends)
(family-friends)
(work-friends)
(childhood-teenage-friends)
(writer-friends)
(musical-friends)
(love- and spouse-friends)
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he that has found one has found a treasure.
–Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus
To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was, “A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
–Aristotle
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
–Edna Buchanan
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
–Marcus Cicero
Friends are God’s apology for relations.
–Hugh Kingsmill
A friend: one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
–Walter Winchell