Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. , Shawshank RedemptionMy heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. -- Richard Adams, Watership DownIt is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold BennettFriendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel ButlerA friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome CummingsIt destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin DisraeliI hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- EuripidesMy best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry FordThere are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin FranklinWhen a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. HoweFriends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas JonesThe real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. -- Eugene KennedyThe better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham LincolnThe imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron MachadoWhen one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry MillerA woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich NietzscheEach friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Ana飐 NinWe have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline NortonWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -- Henri Nouwen, Out of SolitudeBooks, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel PatersonDo not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. -- Rainer Maria RilkeFriends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. -- George SantayanaGood friends are good for your health. -- Irwin SarasonLife is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney SmithA friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis StevensonA real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter WinchellSome people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189