A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- William Penn

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
- David Storey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
- Len Wein

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
- Euripides

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasow

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
- Sicilian Proverb

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Erich Segal

True friends stab you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
- Ben Jonson

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson