…life is pointless without them. A friend asked me to round up some quotes about friendship, so today’s selection is a little longer than most.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
-Elbert Hubbard

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

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour.
- Paraphased from John Christian Bovee?

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
-Brandi Snyder

Friends are like pencils. When you have none, life is pointless.
-Unknown

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
-Elisabeth Foley

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
-Dorothy Parker

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
-Walter Winchell

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
-Eleanor Roosevelt

We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.
-Benjamin Franklin

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

True friends stab you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde

Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I’m getting richer and richer.
-Unknown

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
-Winnie the Pooh

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-Albert Camus

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
-John Leonard

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
-Marlene Dietrich

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson