Quotes on Friendship

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. - Randolph S. Bourne

What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. - Dalai Lama

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. - Anais Nin

I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just idiots. I've learned. . . that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change. I've learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that. - Unknown

The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time where nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every road led home. - The Wonder Years

At home one relies on parents; away from home one relies on friends. - Chinese Proverb

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. - Yassir Arafat

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Barbara Bush

Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Interiorly, most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. - Lord Chesterfeild

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. - Thucydides

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. - Apocrypha

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are like everything else a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. - Edvard Grieg

Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath. - Fuller

The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark. - Crowell

Friendship is a treasure that always help us overcome any kind of difficulty, Friendship is a comfort for, somehow which always understand worries and emotions, Friendship is a blessing because it teaches the way to live. - Unknown

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. - Ann Landers

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 Friendship never dies A true friend is there always Through good times and bad Through sorrow and grief A true friend will never walk away They are here to stay They are heaven sent from above God's Special Angels full of love And such Grace, You will know Them from the smiles upon their face. Sent to you from the Lord God above! - Karen Sue Magee

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. - Thomas Jefferson

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. - Zig Ziglar

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending performing. You get to love your pretense. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if

you try to remind them, they hate you for it they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession. - Jim Morrison

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. R. A. Dickson

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Elliot

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. - E. M. Forster

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Bronte Charlotte

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. - Buddha

Never injure a friend, even in jest. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty. - English Proverb

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. - Thomas Fuller

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker

...as we bend with the wind, and change with the times... We will always have our friendship. - Unknown

You can bank on any friendship where interest is paid. - Gordon Preiser

Volunteers are caring friends - Don Williams

To betray a friend is worse than to be betrayed by one. - Unknown

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. Aristotle

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. - Ecclesiasticus 6:14

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot

Dreams are wishes cast upon stars, so catch a shining one, take your friend's hand and hold on forever - Traci Brown

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes

If I'm not good enough to be a friend Than, you need to like your self first Cause there is nothing wrong with me. - Karen S.Magee

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. - Marjorie Holmes

I chose a friend because I needed a friend, if I had wanted a knife I would have bought one. - Unknown

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. - St. Thomas Aquinas

In a friend you find a second self. - Isabelle Norton

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. - Dumas The Younger

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill

It is not so much our friend's help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus

Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world. - Henry James

I never had better friends than the friends I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? - Stand By Me

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

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal. - Ann Landers

A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad. - Anonymous

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. - Pythagoras (582BC-507BC) Greek mathemetician, philosopher

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. - Anonymous

Our best friends are those who know their faults well enough to forgive us ours. - Moulton H. Farnham

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. - Antisthenes

When you are too busy for friends, you are too busy. - Unknown

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. - Kahlil Gibran

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas Edison

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of ones heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow and rest away. - George Eliot

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 somebody who can make us do what we can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing. - Billie Holiday

We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see. - Winnie the Pooh

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. A.A. Milne

I get by with a little help from my friends. -John Lennon

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. -Mary Catherwood

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. -C. S. Lewis

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel. -Logan Pearsall Smith

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -Abraham Lincoln

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow. -Cher

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. -Mencius

True friendship is never serene. -Mariede Svign

It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. -Marlene Dietrick

A friend is a gift you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. -Oscar Wilde

The best mirror is an old friend. -George Herbert

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies. -Aristotle

The friendship that can cease has never been real. -Saint Jerome

I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends. -William Shakespeare

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. -Thomas Jefferson

Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak. -John Donne

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end. -John Boyle O'Reilly

Friends have all things in common. -Plato

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Artistotle

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. -Henry Ford

It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm... -Shelly

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. -Wilson Mizner

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself. - Unknown

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. - Robert Southey (1774-1843)

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) English writer, poet

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most. - Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956) US women's golfer

Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. - Al Unser, Jr. (1962-) US auto racer

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

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

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. Doug Larson

He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all. -Spanish Maxim

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything. -Muhammad Ali

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. -John D. MacDonald

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach, Illusions

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau

He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. -Bumper Sticker

Never forget your friends, they are your roots to life, and with the memories lost, you will just blow in the wind... -Christopher Allen Weller

My friends are my estate. - Emily Dickinson

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. -Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

He who seeks a friend without fault remains without. -Old Turkish Proverb

Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle

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

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another. - Oliver Schreiner

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. - Winnie the Pooh

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

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. -Unknown

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life. -Unknown

Friends are God's way of taking care of us. -Unknown

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. -Stone Temple Pilots

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. -Dave Matthews Band

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. -Unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. -Unknown

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. - Tim McGraw

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. -Lee Iacocca

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

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. -Unknown

Count your age with friends but not with years. - Anonymous