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 More Friendship quotes : 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