Friendship, friendship -- such a perfect blendship ...

And we go from Brazilian fight dancing to thoughts on friendship ...

A couple years ago The Nightriders (a group of best-friend Super Heroes) traded many quotes on friendship back and forth. I found some of them not long ago. Here they are. I hope you can say that you have experienced true friendship:

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous

A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)

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

It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.-- Marlene Dietrich

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-- Walter Winchell

"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 Aretino (1537)

"A friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"Let your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.-- Proverbs 24:26

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-Samuel Paterson

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

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!-- Doug Larson

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -- Czech. Proverb

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)