Friendship Quotes
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha
"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
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- sent by Steve
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
"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
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln,
"The love of my life is the love between friends."
"One's best friend is oneself."
"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"
"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
- Guido
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."
"True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign
"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"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,
"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
- Collins English Dictionary
"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
- Emma Stacey
"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
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."
- Edith Wharton
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott
"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Never shall i forget the days i spent with you . continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."
-Benjamin Franklin -Sent in by Andr銊
The following five quotes were sent in by Handan
"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
-Benjamin Franklin
" 'Stay' is a charming word in a friends vocabulary."
-Louisa Mary Alcott [1832-1888], American writer, reformist
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
-William Arthur Ward
"Friendship? Yes Please."
-Charles Dickens - Sent in by Steffi
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
- Alexander Pope
"A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Cicero (Sent by Nigar Baimova)
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the true sourse of art, science, and friendship."
- Albert Einstien (Sent by Brandon Merenda)
"But 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 (Sent by Shawn)
"The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."
- Hilda Brett Farr
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"In a friend you find a second self."
- Isabelle Norton
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller
"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking foward to sharing time with them again."
- Lee Wilkinson
"Ah, how good it feels...the hand of an old friend"
- Mary Englebright
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
- Aristotle
"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
- Francis Bacon
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
- Cicero
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson