You may celebrate your friendship by using these famous quotes on any day of the year. Alternatively you yourself may just want to get enlightened by the nature of a true friendship. Enjoy!

• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. - Titus Maccius Plautus
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides
• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. - Euripides
• Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. - Euripides
• A friend in need is a friend indeed. - English proverb
• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - François de La Rochefoucauld
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. - Khalil Gibran
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. - Joseph Addison
• A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. - William Shakespeare
• True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington
• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. - Charles Lamb

• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard
• The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. - David Storey
• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift on if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. - Christina Rossetti
• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. - Eustace Budgell
• Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. - Anna Deavere Smith
• The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert Horatio Humphrey II
• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. - William Glasser
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities. - Clive Staples Lewis
• A friend is worth all hazards we can run. - Edward Young
• Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. - William Boyd Watterson II
• Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. - Eustace Budgell
• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. - Pietro Arentino
• Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle
• Love is like a wild rose-briar, / Friendship like a holly-tree. / The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, / But which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Jane Brontë
• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly. - Publilius Syrus
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus
• We die as often as we lose a friend. - Publilius Syrus
• Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson