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Friendship Quotes
 ********* A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings ********* Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew ********* Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying ********* "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." -- Elbert Hubbard ********* "Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." -- Jewish saying ********* What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle ********* Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus ********* "The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ********* The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln ********* Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb ********* "A faithful friend is the medicine of life." -- Apocrypha ********* Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous ********* Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. -- Claude Mermet ********* "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." -- Baltasar Gracian (1647) ********* "Friendship needs no words..." -- Dag Hammarskjold. ********* "Friends are the sunshine of life." -- John Hay (1871) ********* "The best mirror is an old friend." --George Herbert ********* 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 ********* Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. -- Samuel Paterson ********* Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-- John Evelyn ********* Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.-- Swedish proverb ********* A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous ********* Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous ********* Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman ********* "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) ********* "There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends." -- Hillaire Belloc ********* "The rain may be falling hard outside,But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so glad that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end." -- Robert Alan ********* "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow- ripening fruit." -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.) ********* "Friendship is essentially a partnership." -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.) ********* "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." -- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10. ********* "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) ********* "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." -- Eustace Budgell (1711) ********* "Friendship is Love without his wings!" -- Lord Byron (1806) ********* "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." -- Cicero (44 B.C.) ********* "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost" -- Charles Caleb Colton (1825) ********* "Every man passes his life in the search after friendship." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ********* "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ********* "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ********* "We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need." -- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.) ********* "Friends show their love in times of trouble..." -- Euripides (408 B.C.) ********* "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." -- Euripides (408 B.C.) ********* "A good friend is my nearest relation." -- Thomas Fuller (1732) ********* "My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private." -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol ********* "Your friend is your needs answered." -- Kahil Gibran ********* "Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." -- Kahil Gibran. ********* "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.) ********* "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." -- Samuel Johnson ********* "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." -- La Rochefoucauld (1665) ********* "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire." -- La Rochefoucauld (1665) ********* "I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ********* "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 other people interested in you." -- Bernard Meltzer ********* "Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." -- Charles Peguy ********* "There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom." -- William Penn ********* "No man is useless while he has a friend." -- Robert Louis Stevenson ********* "A friend is a present you give yourself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson ********* "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh ********* "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain ********* An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.-- Proverbs 24:26 ********* "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." -- Len Wein ********* "You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality." -- Woodrow Wilson ********* It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. -- Mary Dixon Thayer ********* A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia ********* Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. -Anonymous ********* It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.-- Marlene Dietrich ********* 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 ********* Good friends are good for your health.-Irwin Sarason ********* The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -- Henry David Thoreau ********* 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 ********* I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. - Virginia Woolf ********* Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -Sydney Smith ********* In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) ********* It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -- Mahatma Gandhi ********* One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton ********* A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!-- Doug Larson ********* A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. -- Len Wein ********* Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -- Czech. Proverb ********* Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. -- Thomas Wilson ********* |
