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 truth is that friendship is to me every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. ~ Katherine Mansfield

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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