"God bless my friend who sees my needs and reaches out a hand."A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults." ~Charles Kingsley
Who lifts me up, prays for me, and helps me understand."
~Anon
"A friend gives hope when life is low,
A friend is a place when you have nowhere to go,
A friend is honest, a friend is true.
A friend is precious, a friend is you."
~Anon
"A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find." ~Plutarch
"A cup of tea and a long talk with a good friend: What could be better?" ~Anon
"A day with an old friend is like a familiar country road ... it brings you home back to your start." ~Anon
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." ~Apocrypha (Book of Ecclesiastes)
"A friend at hand is better than a relative at a distance." ~Proverb
"A friend is someone who arrives when you have flu with a bag of oranges, the thriller you wanted to read and a bunch of flowers. They put the flowers in a vase, make you a hot drink, do the washing up - and go." ~Pam Brown, b. 1928
"A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks with you in the shadows." ~Anon
"A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile." ~Anon
"A friendship is like a cup of tea. It must be clear and transparent, and I've must be able to see to the bottom." ~Chinese Proverb
"A friendship that like love is warm; a love like friendship, steady." ~Thomas Moore
"A friendship which makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one!" ~Joseph Addison
"Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while." ~Anon
"Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness." ~Euripides
"Friends…They cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship always benefits." ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives." ~Alexandre Dumas, 1803-1870
"Friendship does not know the distances and it does not count encounters. A friend lives in the heart through the turning of roads and difficult situations, in thought with the passing and the power of giving." ~Johanna, Quotes for Love, Friendship and Wisdom
"Friendship enhances our lives and gladdens our hearts." ~Francis Gay, The Friendship Book 2014 - in grateful thanks to Maurice Ware
"Friendship grows deeper and stronger through the seasons of our lives." ~Julian S. Cutler
"Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey." ~Henri Nouwen from BrainyQuote
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief." ~Joseph Addison
"Friendship is a furrow in the sand." ~Tongan Proverb
"FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us to see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn. A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die." ~David Whyte
"Friendship is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days." ~Anon
"Friendship is a flower that blooms through all life's seasons." ~Anon
"Friendship is a precious possession, treasured most dearly in times of need." ~Jonathan McNair, LCG Minister, Commentary: A Friend in Need
"Friendship is a promise made in the heart. Silence, unwritten, unbreakable by distance; unchangeable by time." ~Oorja Yoga
"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time." ~Mary Shelley (from Shadowlands)
"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time." ~Mary Wollstonecraft
"Friendship is a sheltering tree." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." ~Eustace Budgell
"Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer." ~Author Unknown
"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue." ~William Penn
"Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm." ~Augustine Birrell
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots." ~George Santayana
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is always in season ... and always ripe to share with others." ~Anon
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ~C.S. Lewis
"Friendship, is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual." ~Stieg Larsson
"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer." ~Oscar Wilde
"Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever." ~Girlfriend Social, Twitter
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.' ~Samuel Butler
"FRIENDSHIP is like music...two strings similarly tuned. they will vibrate together though touch one. Can you play " my music" my friend?" ~Esther Bustamante
"Friendship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it's to leave, and you can never go without leaving your footprints behind." ~Feel Proud To Be who You Are
"Friendship is love with understanding." ~Ancient Proverb
"Friendship is love without his wings!" ~George Gordon, Lord Byron
"Friendship is not a fruit for enjoyment only, but also an opportunity for service." ~Greek Proverb
"Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauty of all the others." ~C.S. Lewis
"Friendship isn’t just about common ground. Sometimes the most powerful, life-changing relationships of all can grow out of differences; from listening to those who can open our eyes to whole new worldviews and experiences." ~Starts at 60
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." ~Muhammad Ali
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies.' ~Mencius (372 BC-289 BC)
"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
"Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1998
"Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man." ~Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), English statesman, author
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." ~John Evelyn
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul." ~Voltaire
"Friendship is the most worthy of human ties. A man loves his friend's soul, and to do that he must have a soul himself." ~George Louis Leclerc De Buffon
"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace." ~Buddha
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." ~St. Aquinas
"Friendship's the wine of life." ~Edward Young
"Friendship lifts the heart just as sunshine turns the flowers skyward." ~Anon
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it." ~Cicero
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." ~Elie Wiesel
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." ~Baltasar Gracias
"Friendship needs no words." ~Dag Hammarskjold
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity." ~Charles Caleb Colton
"Friendship often blossoms at the kitchen table... while pots boil away on the stove." ~Anon
"Friendship warms the heart." ~Anon
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing." ~Randolph S. Bourne
"Friendships are like flowers - some last a few days, some last much longer, and the best ones will thrive if they're carefully cared for." ~Anon
"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off." ~Frances de Sales
"Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost." ~? (Philip Reyes)
"Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs." ~H.G. Bohn
"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable." ~John D. MacDonald
"Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring." ~Denise Austin
"Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be." ~Gandhi
"Friendships with kind, true and tried are the sweet colourful icings in our life!" ~Tita Balanza
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." ~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful, or great, but He does intend us all to be friends." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends." ~Ethel Watts Mumford (1878-1940)
"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget." ~Anon
"Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage." ~Anon
"Grab a friend by the hand, run out into the world and have an adventure." ~ The Healing Room
"Hard times will reveal true friends." ~Anthony Bucciardi
"Having best friends, distant or near, sharing ourselves with others, with a strength and yet a lightness of touch, can bring a sense of of real joy into our lives." ~Frances Grant
"He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all." ~Montaigne, 1533-1592
"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." ~St Basil of Caesaria
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." ~Nigerian Proverb
"The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it" ~Sylvia Braemer
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing...not healing, not curing,,,that is a friend who cares." ~Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
"The friendship that can cease has never been real." ~Saint Jerome (420 BC - 347 BC)
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The good man is the friend of all living things." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it." ~Agnes Sandford
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." ~Henry David Thoreau
"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus, even plainest when all around is dark." ~Grace Crowell (1877-1969)
"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends." ~Samuel Johnson
"The loss of a beloved deserving friend is the hardest trial of philosophy." ~Mary Wortley Montague
"The love of friendship arises out of the love of life, and is indeed another form of it." ~J.C. Shairp
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." ~Edward Everett Hale
“A friend … awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.” ~John O'Donohue
"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest." ~Emma Bombeck, b. 1927
"A friend in need is a friend indeed." ~English Proverb
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
"A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back." ~Anon
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend in need is a friend indeed." ~English Proverb
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
"A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back." ~Anon
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself." ~Pam Brown, b. 1928
"A friend is a present which you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." ~Cicero
"A friend is known in time of need." ~French Proverb
“A friend is like a bowl of Jelly Beans... Good to the bottom of the bowl.” ~Anon
"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be." ~Douglas Pagels
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." ~Elbert Hubbard
"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view." ~Wilma Askinas
"A friend is a present which you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." ~Cicero
"A friend is known in time of need." ~French Proverb
“A friend is like a bowl of Jelly Beans... Good to the bottom of the bowl.” ~Anon
"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be." ~Douglas Pagels
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." ~Elbert Hubbard
"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view." ~Wilma Askinas
"A friend is one who thinks that your birthday comes at anytime." ~Leah C Dancel, 27 June 2023
"A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be." ~Debbie Alicen
"A friend is someone who arrives when you have flu with a bag of oranges, the thriller you wanted to read and a bunch of flowers. They put the flowers in a vase, make you a hot drink, do the washing up - and go." ~Pam Brown, b. 1928
"A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks with you in the shadows." ~Anon
"A friend is someone who dislikes the same people you dislike." ~Anon
"A friend is someone who does things that count, but doesn’t stop to count them." ~Anon
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~Len Wein (1948-)
"A friend is someone who knows all about you, and still loves you." ~E. Hubbard
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~Bernard Meltzer
"A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out." ~Grace Pulpit
"A friend is someone who does things that count, but doesn’t stop to count them." ~Anon
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~Len Wein (1948-)
"A friend is someone who knows all about you, and still loves you." ~E. Hubbard
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~Bernard Meltzer
"A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out." ~Grace Pulpit
"A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality..." ~William Dean Howells (1827 - 1920)
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me it when my memory fails." ~Donna Roberts
"A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity." ~Proverbs 17:17
"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face." ~Maya Angelou
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A 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
"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities." ~William Shakespeare
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me it when my memory fails." ~Donna Roberts
"A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity." ~Proverbs 17:17
"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face." ~Maya Angelou
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A 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
"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities." ~William Shakespeare
"A friend that is always put last doesn't remain a friend for long." ~Frances Taylor
"A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile." ~Anon
"A friendship is like a cup of tea. It must be clear and transparent, and I've must be able to see to the bottom." ~Chinese Proverb
"A friendship that like love is warm; a love like friendship, steady." ~Thomas Moore
"A friendship which makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one!" ~Joseph Addison
"A good friend knows the key to your heart." ~Curated Grapes
"A great friendship steadies you -calmly, like the waves of a pond gently lapping the shore." ~Anon
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever” ~Dave Matthews Band
"A heart-to-heart talk that lasted three hours felt like three minutes ... now that's a friendship." ~Anon
"A hedge between keeps friendship green." ~English Proverb
"A judicious choice of friends is essential to happiness. The daily round of work is much more pleasant if cheered by friends who are often able to give, or pleased to receive, help in the little difficulties that occur in everyday life." ~Isabella Beeton
"A life without a friend is a life without a sun." ~German Proverb
"A loyal and true friend is a precious, priceless gift." ~Anon
"A man must get friends as he would get food and drink for nourishment and sustenance." ~Randolph Silliman Bourne
"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends." ~Chinese Proverb
"A man who turns his back on his friends soon finds himself facing a very small audience." ~Dick Powell 1904-1963
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses." ~Anon
"A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart." ~Francis Bacon
"A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves." ~Anon
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." ~Walter Winchell (1879-1972)
"A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part." ~Anon
"A true friend advises justly, assists readily, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."~ Charles Lamb, Essayist, Poet
"A true friend is one to whom you can tip out all the contents of your heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away," ~Arabs
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~Len Wein
"A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them." ~Robert South
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings." ~Duc de la Rochefoucauld
"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." ~William Arthur Ward
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." ~Arnold H. Glasow
"A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." ~Heather Pryor from Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses
"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." ~William Penn
"A true friendship doesn't need daily conversation. It does not assume the worst, even when communication is lacking. Strong friendships survive the storms of this life because they believe the best about each other. As long as the friendship lives in the heart, true friends will never part." ~from Lessons Learned in Life
"A well-known friend is a treasure." ~Chinese Proverb
"Above our life we love a steadfast friend." ~Christopher Marlowe
"Adult friendships are hard. Everyone is busy and life happens. I've learned you gotta text people when you're thinking of them. A simple 'thinking of you, hope all is well' really goes a long way." ~Rob Lowe
"Adversity does teach who your real friends are." ~Lois Mcmaster Bujold (1949-)
"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?" ~Abraham Lincoln
"Among life's precious jewels, genuine and rare, the one that we call friendship has worth beyond compare." ~Anon
"An act of friendship is like a quilt square - each is part of a beautiful whole as well as a work of art on its own." ~Anon
"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship." ~Oscar Wilde
"And the song, from the beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)
"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
"Anyone can show up when you're happy. But the ones who stay by your side when your heart falls apart, they are your true friends." ~Bright Vibes
"As a friend one is a person for other people to rely on. A friend remains a friend, even in disaster, even in guilt." ~Jurgen Moltmann
"As long as we have friendship, today is beautiful. As long as we have memories, yesterday remains. As long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits." ~Anon
"As long as you have one good friend, real friend, you can get through anything." ~Dana Reinhardt
"As we grow older we don't lose friends, we just learn who the real ones are." ~Anon
"As we grow through life, we start to understand that it's not important to have a lot of friends. What truly matters is that we have real friends." ~Anon
"As we grow up, we realize it is less important to have lots of friends, and more important to have real ones." ~Anon
"Be a friend to thyself and others will too." ~Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"Be a friend to yourself, and others will." ~Scottish Proverb
"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity." ~Chilo
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Because of a friend the whole world seems warmer and brighter." ~Julian S. Cutleri
"Being honest may not get you many friends,
But it will always get you the right ones."
~John Lennon
"Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!" ~George Eliot
"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts." ~Thomas Hughes (The Friendship Book 2014)
"Blessed is he who hungers for friends, for though he may not realize it, his soul is crying out for God." ~Habib Sahabib
"But every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it." ~Elizabeth Shane
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"But here's the joy: my friend and I are one." ~William Shakespeare
"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all loses are restored and sorrows end." ~William Shakespeare
"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship." ~William Glasser
"Come walk with me through life, my friend, arm in arm we'll stroll with love and hope to light our path, and faith to guide our souls." ~Anon
"Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. And frame your life with faith." ~Thomas S. Monson
"Conversation flowing from the heart is a sign of true friendship." ~Rumi
"Cultivating friendships provides nourishment for the heart." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance." ~Rabindranath Tagore *1861-1941)
"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
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…" ~Richard Bach
"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery, in which to bury the faults of his friends." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure." ~Anon
"Fame is scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust." ~~George MacDonald (1824-1905)
"For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price." ~Sophocles
"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is as a new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." ~Apocrypha of the Old Testament (Sirach 9:10); Ecclesiastes
"Friends and family can set us right and help guide us back to the light." ~Sera Christiann
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ~Beth Bracaglia's Simply Inspired
"Friends are born, not made." ~Henry Adams
"Friends are diamonds who reflect the light of our spirit." ~Mary Davis
"Friends are flowers that never fade." ~Anon
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us." ~Anon
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ~Anon
"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight." ~English Proverb
"Friends are like stars; you can always see them, but you know they're always there." ~Anon
"Friends are like street lights along the road. They don't make the distance any shorter but they light up the path and make the walk worthwhile." ~© Lynne and FB Ups, Downs and Roundabouts
"Friends are medicine to a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul." ~Steve Maraboli
"Friends are the family we choose for ourselves." ~Edna Buchanan
"Friends are the most important ingredient in the recipe of life." ~Zig Ziglar
"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer." ~Anon
"Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here." ~William Mather
"Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness." ~Henry Alonzo Myers
"A great friendship steadies you -calmly, like the waves of a pond gently lapping the shore." ~Anon
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever” ~Dave Matthews Band
"A heart-to-heart talk that lasted three hours felt like three minutes ... now that's a friendship." ~Anon
"A hedge between keeps friendship green." ~English Proverb
"A judicious choice of friends is essential to happiness. The daily round of work is much more pleasant if cheered by friends who are often able to give, or pleased to receive, help in the little difficulties that occur in everyday life." ~Isabella Beeton
"A life without a friend is a life without a sun." ~German Proverb
"A loyal and true friend is a precious, priceless gift." ~Anon
"A man must get friends as he would get food and drink for nourishment and sustenance." ~Randolph Silliman Bourne
"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends." ~Chinese Proverb
"A man who turns his back on his friends soon finds himself facing a very small audience." ~Dick Powell 1904-1963
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses." ~Anon
"A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart." ~Francis Bacon
"A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves." ~Anon
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." ~Walter Winchell (1879-1972)
"A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part." ~Anon
"A true friend advises justly, assists readily, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."~ Charles Lamb, Essayist, Poet
"A true friend is one to whom you can tip out all the contents of your heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away," ~Arabs
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~Len Wein
"A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them." ~Robert South
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings." ~Duc de la Rochefoucauld
"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." ~William Arthur Ward
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." ~Arnold H. Glasow
"A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." ~Heather Pryor from Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses
"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." ~William Penn
"A true friendship doesn't need daily conversation. It does not assume the worst, even when communication is lacking. Strong friendships survive the storms of this life because they believe the best about each other. As long as the friendship lives in the heart, true friends will never part." ~from Lessons Learned in Life
"A well-known friend is a treasure." ~Chinese Proverb
"Above our life we love a steadfast friend." ~Christopher Marlowe
"Adult friendships are hard. Everyone is busy and life happens. I've learned you gotta text people when you're thinking of them. A simple 'thinking of you, hope all is well' really goes a long way." ~Rob Lowe
"Adversity does teach who your real friends are." ~Lois Mcmaster Bujold (1949-)
"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?" ~Abraham Lincoln
"Among life's precious jewels, genuine and rare, the one that we call friendship has worth beyond compare." ~Anon
"An act of friendship is like a quilt square - each is part of a beautiful whole as well as a work of art on its own." ~Anon
"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship." ~Oscar Wilde
"And the song, from the beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)
"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
"Anyone can show up when you're happy. But the ones who stay by your side when your heart falls apart, they are your true friends." ~Bright Vibes
"As a friend one is a person for other people to rely on. A friend remains a friend, even in disaster, even in guilt." ~Jurgen Moltmann
"As long as we have friendship, today is beautiful. As long as we have memories, yesterday remains. As long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits." ~Anon
"As long as you have one good friend, real friend, you can get through anything." ~Dana Reinhardt
"As we grow older we don't lose friends, we just learn who the real ones are." ~Anon
"As we grow through life, we start to understand that it's not important to have a lot of friends. What truly matters is that we have real friends." ~Anon
"As we grow up, we realize it is less important to have lots of friends, and more important to have real ones." ~Anon
"Be a friend to thyself and others will too." ~Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity." ~Chilo
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Because of a friend the whole world seems warmer and brighter." ~Julian S. Cutleri
"Being honest may not get you many friends,
But it will always get you the right ones."
~John Lennon
"Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!" ~George Eliot
"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts." ~Thomas Hughes (The Friendship Book 2014)
"Blessed is he who hungers for friends, for though he may not realize it, his soul is crying out for God." ~Habib Sahabib
"But every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it." ~Elizabeth Shane
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"But here's the joy: my friend and I are one." ~William Shakespeare
"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all loses are restored and sorrows end." ~William Shakespeare
"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship." ~William Glasser
"Come walk with me through life, my friend, arm in arm we'll stroll with love and hope to light our path, and faith to guide our souls." ~Anon
"Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. And frame your life with faith." ~Thomas S. Monson
"Conversation flowing from the heart is a sign of true friendship." ~Rumi
"Cultivating friendships provides nourishment for the heart." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance." ~Rabindranath Tagore *1861-1941)
"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
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…" ~Richard Bach
"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery, in which to bury the faults of his friends." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure." ~Anon
"Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust." ~~George MacDonald (1824-1905)
"For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price." ~Sophocles
"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is as a new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." ~Apocrypha of the Old Testament (Sirach 9:10); Ecclesiastes
"Friends and family can set us right and help guide us back to the light." ~Sera Christiann
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ~Beth Bracaglia's Simply Inspired
"Friends are born, not made." ~Henry Adams
"Friends are diamonds who reflect the light of our spirit." ~Mary Davis
"Friends are flowers that never fade." ~Anon
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us." ~Anon
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ~Anon
"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight." ~English Proverb
"Friends are like stars; you can always see them, but you know they're always there." ~Anon
"Friends are like street lights along the road. They don't make the distance any shorter but they light up the path and make the walk worthwhile." ~© Lynne and FB Ups, Downs and Roundabouts
"Friends are medicine to a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul." ~Steve Maraboli
"Friends are the family we choose for ourselves." ~Edna Buchanan
"Friends are the most important ingredient in the recipe of life." ~Zig Ziglar
"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer." ~Anon
"Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness." ~Henry Alonzo Myers
"Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody." ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while." ~Anon
"Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness." ~Euripides
"Friends…They cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship always benefits." ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives." ~Alexandre Dumas, 1803-1870
"Friendship does not know the distances and it does not count encounters. A friend lives in the heart through the turning of roads and difficult situations, in thought with the passing and the power of giving." ~Johanna, Quotes for Love, Friendship and Wisdom
"Friendship enhances our lives and gladdens our hearts." ~Francis Gay, The Friendship Book 2014 - in grateful thanks to Maurice Ware
"Friendship grows deeper and stronger through the seasons of our lives." ~Julian S. Cutler
"Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey." ~Henri Nouwen from BrainyQuote
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief." ~Joseph Addison
"Friendship is a furrow in the sand." ~Tongan Proverb
"FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us to see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn. A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die." ~David Whyte
"Friendship is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days." ~Anon
"Friendship is a flower that blooms through all life's seasons." ~Anon
"Friendship is a precious possession, treasured most dearly in times of need." ~Jonathan McNair, LCG Minister, Commentary: A Friend in Need
"Friendship is a promise made in the heart. Silence, unwritten, unbreakable by distance; unchangeable by time." ~Oorja Yoga
"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time." ~Mary Shelley (from Shadowlands)
"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time." ~Mary Wollstonecraft
"Friendship is a sheltering tree." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." ~Eustace Budgell
"Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer." ~Author Unknown
"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue." ~William Penn
"Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm." ~Augustine Birrell
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots." ~George Santayana
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is always in season ... and always ripe to share with others." ~Anon
"Friendship, is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual." ~Stieg Larsson
"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer." ~Oscar Wilde
"Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever." ~Girlfriend Social, Twitter
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.' ~Samuel Butler
"FRIENDSHIP is like music...two strings similarly tuned. they will vibrate together though touch one. Can you play " my music" my friend?" ~Esther Bustamante
"Friendship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it's to leave, and you can never go without leaving your footprints behind." ~Feel Proud To Be who You Are
"Friendship is love with understanding." ~Ancient Proverb
"Friendship is love without his wings!" ~George Gordon, Lord Byron
"Friendship is not a fruit for enjoyment only, but also an opportunity for service." ~Greek Proverb
"Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauty of all the others." ~C.S. Lewis
"Friendship isn’t just about common ground. Sometimes the most powerful, life-changing relationships of all can grow out of differences; from listening to those who can open our eyes to whole new worldviews and experiences." ~Starts at 60
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." ~Muhammad Ali
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies.' ~Mencius (372 BC-289 BC)
"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
"Friendship is the art of holding up a mirror to each other’s souls." ~Aristotle
"Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1998
"Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man." ~Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), English statesman, author
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." ~John Evelyn
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul." ~Voltaire
"Friendship is the most worthy of human ties. A man loves his friend's soul, and to do that he must have a soul himself." ~George Louis Leclerc De Buffon
"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace." ~Buddha
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." ~St. Aquinas
"Friendship's the wine of life." ~Edward Young
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ~C. S. Lewis
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it." ~Cicero
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." ~Elie Wiesel
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." ~Baltasar Gracias
"Friendship needs no words." ~Dag Hammarskjold
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity." ~Charles Caleb Colton
"Friendship often blossoms at the kitchen table... while pots boil away on the stove." ~Anon
"Friendship warms the heart." ~Anon
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing." ~Randolph S. Bourne
"Friendships are like flowers - some last a few days, some last much longer, and the best ones will thrive if they're carefully cared for." ~Anon
"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off." ~Frances de Sales
"Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost." ~? (Philip Reyes)
"Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs." ~H.G. Bohn
"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable." ~John D. MacDonald
"Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring." ~Denise Austin
"Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be." ~Gandhi
"Friendships with kind, true and tried are the sweet colourful icings in our life!" ~Tita Balanza
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." ~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful, or great, but He does intend us all to be friends." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends." ~Ethel Watts Mumford (1878-1940)
"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget." ~Anon
"Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage." ~Anon
"Grab a friend by the hand, run out into the world and have an adventure." ~ The Healing Room
"Hard times will reveal true friends." ~Anthony Bucciardi
"Having best friends, distant or near, sharing ourselves with others, with a strength and yet a lightness of touch, can bring a sense of of real joy into our lives." ~Frances Grant
"He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all." ~Montaigne, 1533-1592
"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." ~St Basil of Caesaria
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." ~Nigerian Proverb
"Honor the friendships that allow you to pick up from where you last left off, regardless of how long it's been since you connected. The friendships that survive hiatuses, silences, and space. Those are the connections that never die." ~Billy Chapata
"I can spend hours watching and listening to Mother Nature. She is a dear friend." ~Anthony Douglas Williams
"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow." ~Cher
"I didn't find my friends; the good God gave them to me." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial." ~Thomas Jefferson
"I get by with a little help from my friends." ~John Lennon
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." ~Yolanda Hadid
"I have lots of friends and my true friends are family." ~Marie Muhammad
"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
"I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles" ~Nelson Mandela, Source Anon, LivingTheLegacy
"I love everything that's old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines." ~Oliver Goldsmith
"I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case heart might stop, Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets!" ~Rumi
"I never set out to make a best friend; you can't manufacture that. But one day I looked at the people in my life - and she was already there: the truest friend one could ever hope to find." ~Frances Grant
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends." ~Walt Whitman
"I rang up my friend to complain about my problems, and then she told me hers. it helped both of us." ~Colette Maynard
"I really think—at any age—it's learning to be comfortable in your own skin. If women would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves. What makes you the most attractive is self-confidence. That's what people see." ~Cindy Crawford on Body Image
“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” ~Jon Katz
"I would be friends with you and have your love." ~William Shakespeare
"I would rather have a few close friends who raise me up, keep me grounded, and love me for who I am, than many who say they care, but don't." ~Anon
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." ~Samuel Johnson
“If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.” ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend." ~Henri Nouwen
"If I had to sum up friendship in one word, it would be comfort." ~Adabella Radici
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving THOUGHT into the heart of a FRIEND that would be giving as the angels give." ~George Mac Donald
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own." ~Charlotte Bronte
"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me." ~Anon
"If you have a friend worth loving, love him. Yes, and let him know that you love him, ere life's evening tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said of a friend-till he is dead? ~Anonymous
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share." ~Thomas Fuller
"If you make friendship with yourself, you will never be alone." ~Maxwell Maltz (1927-2003)
"In friendship, your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better." ~E.W. Howe (1853-1937)
"It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends." ~William Makepeace Thackeray
"It's a good friend who calls - just to check in." ~Anon
"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
"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." ~Mignon McLaughlin on Friendship
"It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting." ~John Henry Newman
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." ~Epicurus (341-270 BC)
"It’s not the number of friends you have that’s important. It’s the integrity, honesty and sincerity that counts. " ~Sidney Ashburn
"... It is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation." ~Helen Keller (1880-1968)
“Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man." ~Sam Walter Foss
"Life is nothing without friendship." ~Cicero
"Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse, and I am not made of stone or iron, so I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need. I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"Love and friendship are rich gold threads which run through the tapestry of life making it sparkle and glow with their warmth." ~Francis Gay, The Frienship Book 2000 (MPW)
“Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.” ~Anon
"Love is a friendship set to music." ~Joseph Campbell
"Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"My books are friends that never fail me." ~Thomas Carlyle
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." -Aristotle
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." ~Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"My friends are my estate." ~Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"My friend, when we are together you bring joy to my heart. Full of love and kindness, You've blessed me from the start." ~Anon
"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow." ~Cher
"I didn't find my friends; the good God gave them to me." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I get by with a little help from my friends." ~John Lennon
"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." ~Yolanda Hadid
"I have lots of friends and my true friends are family." ~Marie Muhammad
"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
"I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles" ~Nelson Mandela, Source Anon, LivingTheLegacy
"I love everything that's old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines." ~Oliver Goldsmith
"I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case heart might stop, Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets!" ~Rumi
"I never set out to make a best friend; you can't manufacture that. But one day I looked at the people in my life - and she was already there: the truest friend one could ever hope to find." ~Frances Grant
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends." ~Walt Whitman
"I rang up my friend to complain about my problems, and then she told me hers. it helped both of us." ~Colette Maynard
"I really think—at any age—it's learning to be comfortable in your own skin. If women would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves. What makes you the most attractive is self-confidence. That's what people see." ~Cindy Crawford on Body Image
“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” ~Jon Katz
"I would be friends with you and have your love." ~William Shakespeare
"I would rather have a few close friends who raise me up, keep me grounded, and love me for who I am, than many who say they care, but don't." ~Anon
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." ~Samuel Johnson
“If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.” ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend." ~Henri Nouwen
"If I had to sum up friendship in one word, it would be comfort." ~Adabella Radici
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving THOUGHT into the heart of a FRIEND that would be giving as the angels give." ~George Mac Donald
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own." ~Charlotte Bronte
"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me." ~Anon
"If you have a friend worth loving, love him. Yes, and let him know that you love him, ere life's evening tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said of a friend-till he is dead? ~Anonymous
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share." ~Thomas Fuller
"If you make friendship with yourself, you will never be alone." ~Maxwell Maltz (1927-2003)
"In friendship, your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better." ~E.W. Howe (1853-1937)
"It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends." ~William Makepeace Thackeray
"It's a good friend who calls - just to check in." ~Anon
"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
"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." ~Mignon McLaughlin on Friendship
"It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting." ~John Henry Newman
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." ~Epicurus (341-270 BC)
"It’s not the number of friends you have that’s important. It’s the integrity, honesty and sincerity that counts. " ~Sidney Ashburn
"... It is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation." ~Helen Keller (1880-1968)
“Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man." ~Sam Walter Foss
"Life is nothing without friendship." ~Cicero
"Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse, and I am not made of stone or iron, so I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need. I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"Love and friendship are rich gold threads which run through the tapestry of life making it sparkle and glow with their warmth." ~Francis Gay, The Frienship Book 2000 (MPW)
“Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.” ~Anon
"Love is a friendship set to music." ~Joseph Campbell
"Love those who will love you when you have nothing to offer but your friendship." ~LLL
"Love without Friendship is like a shadow without a sun." ~Anon
"May the light of spiritual friendship shine between us." ~Lynda Field
"Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"My books are friends that never fail me." ~Thomas Carlyle
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." -Aristotle
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." ~Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"My friends are my estate." ~Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"My friend, when we are together you bring joy to my heart. Full of love and kindness, You've blessed me from the start." ~Anon
"My friend. You never expect too much of me. You are glad when I succeed, but failure makes no difference to you. You give me all the help you can - but, more important, you are simply there." ~Wendy Jean Smith
"My friends are my estate." ~Emily Dickinson from Everyman's Library
"My spiritual friend accepts me as I am, and empowers me to be more than I think I can be." ~K. Bradford Brown
"My friends are my estate." ~Emily Dickinson from Everyman's Library
"My spiritual friend accepts me as I am, and empowers me to be more than I think I can be." ~K. Bradford Brown
"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends." ~William Shakespeare
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." ~Robert Southey
"No love, nor friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." ~Francois Mocuriac
"No man is wise enough by himself." ~Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184 BC), Roman poet and comic playwright
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ~Henry David Thoreau in a letter to Mrs. Emerson
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." ~Epicurus
"One day Love met Friendship. Love asked, Why do you exist when I already exist? Friendship replied, To put a smile where you've left tears." ~Girlfriend Social, Twitter
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." ~Euripides
"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention." ~Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)
"One of the best tests of a friendship is for one friend to point out another's mistakes. It's better to get a little chiding from a friend than to bear the hostility of a stranger. By and large, it's a lot more useful than praise. Listen to your spouse, children, friends, and colleagues." ~Dr. James R. Sherman, PhD
"One that has a good friend does not need any mirror." ~Rumi
"Our minds can be our best friend when it is open and non-judgmental or it can get in our own way. An open mind creates a limitless reality." ~debs (Strand of Pearls)
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness." ~Lois L. Kaufman
"Politeness is an expensive way to make friends." ~Creating Connections
"Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them." ~Owen Felltham
"Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job." ~H.M.E.
"Real friends overlook your broken fence and admire your flowers." ~Muses from Mystic
"Real friends won't ever let an argument get in the way of their friendship. They aren't afraid to apologize and always forgive." ~Anon
"Reprove a friend in secret, but praise him before others." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
"Seeing an old friend again is like the warmth of spring sunshine after a long winter." ~Anon
"Show me a friend who will weep with me; those who will laugh with me I can find myself." ~Yugoslavian Proverb
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." ~Anonymous
"Similarities create friendships while differences hold them together." ~Anon
"So friend, when your nights are filled with loneliness and your days are dark with discouragement, when you can't seem to read or pray or to do anything else, just sit still and let God love you." ~Anon
"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." ~Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894
"Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees." ~Miranda July
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." ~Gloria Naylor
"Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you; they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings." ~Steve Maraboli
"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." ~Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had." ~Anon
"The best of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"The best mirror is an old friend." ~George Herbert
"The best way to keep your friend is not to give them away." ~Wilson Mizner
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." ~Abraham Lincoln
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." ~William Blake
"The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves, and shows himself for what he truly is." ~Robert Benson
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." ~David Storey
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." ~Robert Southey
"No love, nor friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." ~Francois Mocuriac
"No man is wise enough by himself." ~Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184 BC), Roman poet and comic playwright
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ~Henry David Thoreau in a letter to Mrs. Emerson
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." ~Epicurus
"One day Love met Friendship. Love asked, Why do you exist when I already exist? Friendship replied, To put a smile where you've left tears." ~Girlfriend Social, Twitter
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." ~Euripides
"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention." ~Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)
"One of the best tests of a friendship is for one friend to point out another's mistakes. It's better to get a little chiding from a friend than to bear the hostility of a stranger. By and large, it's a lot more useful than praise. Listen to your spouse, children, friends, and colleagues." ~Dr. James R. Sherman, PhD
"One that has a good friend does not need any mirror." ~Rumi
"Our minds can be our best friend when it is open and non-judgmental or it can get in our own way. An open mind creates a limitless reality." ~debs (Strand of Pearls)
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness." ~Lois L. Kaufman
"Politeness is an expensive way to make friends." ~Creating Connections
"Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them." ~Owen Felltham
"Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job." ~H.M.E.
"Real friends overlook your broken fence and admire your flowers." ~Muses from Mystic
"Real friends won't ever let an argument get in the way of their friendship. They aren't afraid to apologize and always forgive." ~Anon
"Reprove a friend in secret, but praise him before others." ~Leonardo Da Vinci
"Seeing an old friend again is like the warmth of spring sunshine after a long winter." ~Anon
"Show me a friend who will weep with me; those who will laugh with me I can find myself." ~Yugoslavian Proverb
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." ~Anonymous
"Similarities create friendships while differences hold them together." ~Anon
"So friend, when your nights are filled with loneliness and your days are dark with discouragement, when you can't seem to read or pray or to do anything else, just sit still and let God love you." ~Anon
"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." ~Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894
"Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees." ~Miranda July
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." ~Gloria Naylor
"Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you; they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings." ~Steve Maraboli
"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." ~Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had." ~Anon
"The best of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"The best mirror is an old friend." ~George Herbert
"The best way to keep your friend is not to give them away." ~Wilson Mizner
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." ~William Blake
"The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves, and shows himself for what he truly is." ~Robert Benson
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." ~David Storey
"The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it" ~Sylvia Braemer
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing...not healing, not curing,,,that is a friend who cares." ~Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
"The friendship that can cease has never been real." ~Saint Jerome (420 BC - 347 BC)
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The good man is the friend of all living things." ~Mahatma Gandhi
“The heart is the garden that always has room for the flowers of kindness and friendship to bloom.” ~Anon
"The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it." ~Agnes Sandford
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." ~Henry David Thoreau
"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus, even plainest when all around is dark." ~Grace Crowell (1877-1969)
"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends." ~Samuel Johnson
"The loss of a beloved deserving friend is the hardest trial of philosophy." ~Mary Wortley Montague
"The love of friendship arises out of the love of life, and is indeed another form of it." ~J.C. Shairp
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." ~Edward Everett Hale
"The mind…is rarely so disturbed, but that the company of a friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness." ~Adam Smith
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." ~Carl Jung
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." ~Elizabeth Foley
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" ~Henry David Thoreau
"The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner." ~Anon Proverbs
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job." ~Edith Wharton
"The only trick of friendship is to find people who are better than you are, not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving - and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad - or good - it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well." ~Hanya Yanagihara
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The quality of friendships is more important than the quantity of friends." ~A.D. Williams
"The road to a friend's house is never long." ~Danish Proverb
"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"The thought came loud and clear this morning: the travelling is the striving, the way is the achievement. I miss out so much if all I wish for my friendships is jam tomorrow." ~Douglas Gifford
"The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows! If it were not with friendship and love intertwined." ~Thomas Moore
"The truest friends are the people who don't walk out the door when life gets real hard. They actually pour some coffee and pull up a chair." ~Sandi Krakowski
"The wonderful thing about friends is that they can grow separated and yet not grow apart." ~Anon
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." ~Pierre Teilhard Chardin
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." ~Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance." ~Dodinsky
"There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no distance too far between friends. For friendship gives wings to the heart."~Anon
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." ~Ernest Hemingway
"There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend." ~Socrates
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” ~P.G. Wodehouse
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” ~Jim Henson
"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend." ~Katharine Butler Hathaway
"There's nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves." ~Rumi
"There's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends." ~Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953)
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time." ~Rebecca West
"They are not your friends until they have defended you in your absence." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"They are rich who have true friends." ~Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend." ~A.D. Williams
"Thous wert my guide, philosopher and friend." ~Alexander Pope
"Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish." ~John Lyly
"To God, thy country, and thy friend be true." ~Henry Vaughan
"To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings." ~Anon
"To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship." ~Anon on Proverbs
"To hear complaints with patience even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship." ~Samuel Johnson
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, place them in the best light." ~Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921, wife of Sir Winston Churchill)
"Treat your friends like family and your family like friends." Anon
"True friends are like angels. They are precious and rare, and false friends are like leaves, found everywhere." ~Anon
"True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere." ~Anon
"True friends are not the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won't disappear when you're facing problems." ~Anon
"True friends are the people who brighten your smile, everytime you're with them." ~Julia VeRost
"True friends are those that are honest with you at all times. They tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. They don't interfere with one's life or add more fuel to the fire when troubled times come. They never encourage hatred of any person. They help their friends to see the good in others not the bad." ~Shenni Waldron
"True friends give the most when they receive the least." ~Orrin Woodward
"True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face." ~Karen Salmansohn
"True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation." ~Theophrastus
"True friendship binds people together in good times and bad." ~Jonathan McNair, LCG Minister, Commentary: A Friend in Need
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." ~David Tyson Gentry
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." ~Carl Jung
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." ~Elizabeth Foley
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" ~Henry David Thoreau
"The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner." ~Anon Proverbs
"The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job." ~Edith Wharton
"The only trick of friendship is to find people who are better than you are, not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving - and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad - or good - it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well." ~Hanya Yanagihara
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The quality of friendships is more important than the quantity of friends." ~A.D. Williams
"The road to a friend's house is never long." ~Danish Proverb
"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"The thought came loud and clear this morning: the travelling is the striving, the way is the achievement. I miss out so much if all I wish for my friendships is jam tomorrow." ~Douglas Gifford
"The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows! If it were not with friendship and love intertwined." ~Thomas Moore
"The truest friends are the people who don't walk out the door when life gets real hard. They actually pour some coffee and pull up a chair." ~Sandi Krakowski
"The wonderful thing about friends is that they can grow separated and yet not grow apart." ~Anon
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." ~Pierre Teilhard Chardin
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." ~Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance." ~Dodinsky
"There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no distance too far between friends. For friendship gives wings to the heart."~Anon
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." ~Ernest Hemingway
"There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend." ~Socrates
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” ~P.G. Wodehouse
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” ~Jim Henson
"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend." ~Katharine Butler Hathaway
"There's nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves." ~Rumi
"There's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends." ~Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953)
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time." ~Rebecca West
"They are not your friends until they have defended you in your absence." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"They are rich who have true friends." ~Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
"Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend." ~A.D. Williams
"Thous wert my guide, philosopher and friend." ~Alexander Pope
"Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish." ~John Lyly
"To God, thy country, and thy friend be true." ~Henry Vaughan
"To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings." ~Anon
"To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship." ~Anon on Proverbs
"To hear complaints with patience even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship." ~Samuel Johnson
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, place them in the best light." ~Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921, wife of Sir Winston Churchill)
"Treat your friends like family and your family like friends." Anon
"True friends are like angels. They are precious and rare, and false friends are like leaves, found everywhere." ~Anon
"True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere." ~Anon
"True friends are not the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won't disappear when you're facing problems." ~Anon
"True friends are the people who brighten your smile, everytime you're with them." ~Julia VeRost
"True friends are those that are honest with you at all times. They tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. They don't interfere with one's life or add more fuel to the fire when troubled times come. They never encourage hatred of any person. They help their friends to see the good in others not the bad." ~Shenni Waldron
"True friends give the most when they receive the least." ~Orrin Woodward
"True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face." ~Karen Salmansohn
"True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation." ~Theophrastus
"True friendship binds people together in good times and bad." ~Jonathan McNair, LCG Minister, Commentary: A Friend in Need
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." ~David Tyson Gentry
"True friendship indeed, is not just about distance, time, and life's status but it's that kindred spirit that binds and connects altogether for posterity through the passage of time." ~Gus Perez Amio
"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
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." ~Charles Caleb Colton
"True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth." ~Richard G. Scott
"TRUE FRIENDSHIP isn’t about being inseparable. It’s being separated and nothing changes." ~Anon
"True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes." ~Anon
"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks." ~St. Jerome
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." ~Jean de la Bruyere
"Two things that should be enjoyed more often are the beauty of the sunset and a company of a friend." ~Doe Zantamata
"Valuable friends will bring more richness to your life than valuable things." ~A.D. Williams
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." ~Helen Keller
"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
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." ~Charles Caleb Colton
"True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth." ~Richard G. Scott
"TRUE FRIENDSHIP isn’t about being inseparable. It’s being separated and nothing changes." ~Anon
"True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes." ~Anon
"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks." ~St. Jerome
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." ~Jean de la Bruyere
"Two things that should be enjoyed more often are the beauty of the sunset and a company of a friend." ~Doe Zantamata
"Valuable friends will bring more richness to your life than valuable things." ~A.D. Williams
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." ~Helen Keller
"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 one which makes the heart run over." ~James Boswell (1740-1795)
"We have been friends together in sunshine and shade." ~Caroline Sheridan Norton
"We have three types of friends in life: friends for a reason, friends for a season and friends for a lifetime." ~Anon
"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young." ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1939-)
"What a great blessing is a friend with breast so trusty that you may bury all your secrets in it." ~Anon
"What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift, but the friend's love." ~Aelred of Rievaulx,12th century Monk. (From The Friendship Book: A Thought For Each Day 2014 sent by MPW of Hants).
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~Aristotle, 384-322 BC
"What is a friend? I will tell you, it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." ~Frank Crane
"When a friend asks there is no tomorrow."~George Herbert (1593-1633)
"When a friend asks there is no tomorrow." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." ~Edgar Watson Howe
"When befriended, remember it. When you befriend, - forget it." ~Benjamin Franklin
"When friends meet, hearts warm." ~John Ray
"When friendship is funny, and bright, we click. And then we need the soft, quiet times together, to make it real." ~Frances Grant
"When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. Friends are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes." ~Countess of Blessington
"When your friendship circle decreases in number it's actually increasing in value." ~Karen Salmansohn
"Where there are friends, there is wealth." ~Titus Maccius Plautus
"While the pot boils, friendship blooms." ~A.B. Cheales
"Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver, the latter gold." ~Anon
"Winter, spring, summer or fall, the gift of friendship is always welcome in our hearts." ~Julian S. Cutler
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." ~Aristotle
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." ~Laurence J. Peter, (1918-)
"You can have a lot of friends and still feel alone. That's why it's always important to take care of you." ~Deep Life Quotes
"You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one." ~Tom Bodett
"You make friends with people because you’re looking for lifelong relationships, not friendships of convenience or simplicity." ~Soul Spot
"You will find that if you share your friend's burden, both of you will walk a little straighter." ~Anon
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." ~Elbert Hubbarb, 1856-1915
"Your friend is your needs answered. He is your friend which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger,and you seek him for peace." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends." ~Hafiz
OTHERS:
"Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late." ~Katharine Susannah Prichard, 1883-1969
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend." ~Joseph Addison
"Laughter is chorus of conversation." ~Sir Richard Steele
"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast." ~William Shakespeare
"Some people mistakenly conclude that cultivating compassion is all about others’ benefit, whereas the first benefit is to us. Compassion brings us peace of mind. It attracts friends. Friends are based on trust and trust develops when we show concern for others." ~Dalai Lama
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.” ~Joseph Addison
"Two are better than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other one can lift him up." ~Book of Ecclesiastes
VERSES:
Flowers are lovely;
love is flower-like;
friendship is a sheltering tree;
oh the joys that came down
shower-like of friendship,
love, and liberty.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),
English Poet, Philosopher
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"Friendship!
Mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweetener of life and solder of society!"
~Robert Blair
"Friendship with trees: true and pure,
One beautiful day from spring to summer.
Let yourself be free and spread your wings,
Keep calm and she will take you to heaven."
~Rado Gatchalian, short poem
"How sweet are the words spoken between friends
Just like a balm that heals or a needle that mends."
~Patricia Grantham
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"Slender at first, they quickly gather force,
Growing in richness as they run their course;
Once started, they do not turn back again:
Rivers, and years, and friendships with good men."
~Sanskrit poem
"The thread of our life would be dark,
Heaven knows!
If it were not with friendship and love
intertwined."
~Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
True Friends..
Good friends care for each other,
Close friends understand each other,
but True friends stay forever,
beyond Words,
beyond Distance,
beyond Time.
~Anon
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"We have been friends together in sunshine and shade." ~Caroline Sheridan Norton
"We have three types of friends in life: friends for a reason, friends for a season and friends for a lifetime." ~Anon
"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young." ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1939-)
"What a great blessing is a friend with breast so trusty that you may bury all your secrets in it." ~Anon
"What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift, but the friend's love." ~Aelred of Rievaulx,12th century Monk. (From The Friendship Book: A Thought For Each Day 2014 sent by MPW of Hants).
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~Aristotle, 384-322 BC
"What is a friend? I will tell you, it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." ~Frank Crane
"When a friend asks there is no tomorrow."~George Herbert (1593-1633)
"When a friend asks there is no tomorrow." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." ~Edgar Watson Howe
"When befriended, remember it. When you befriend, - forget it." ~Benjamin Franklin
"When friends meet, hearts warm." ~John Ray
"When friendship is funny, and bright, we click. And then we need the soft, quiet times together, to make it real." ~Frances Grant
"When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. Friends are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes." ~Countess of Blessington
"When your friendship circle decreases in number it's actually increasing in value." ~Karen Salmansohn
"Where there are friends, there is wealth." ~Titus Maccius Plautus
"While the pot boils, friendship blooms." ~A.B. Cheales
"Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver, the latter gold." ~Anon
"Winter, spring, summer or fall, the gift of friendship is always welcome in our hearts." ~Julian S. Cutler
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." ~Laurence J. Peter, (1918-)
"You can have a lot of friends and still feel alone. That's why it's always important to take care of you." ~Deep Life Quotes
"You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one." ~Tom Bodett
"You make friends with people because you’re looking for lifelong relationships, not friendships of convenience or simplicity." ~Soul Spot
"You will find that if you share your friend's burden, both of you will walk a little straighter." ~Anon
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." ~Elbert Hubbarb, 1856-1915
"Your friend is your needs answered. He is your friend which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger,and you seek him for peace." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends." ~Hafiz
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OTHERS:
"Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late." ~Katharine Susannah Prichard, 1883-1969
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend." ~Joseph Addison
"Laughter is chorus of conversation." ~Sir Richard Steele
"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast." ~William Shakespeare
"Some people mistakenly conclude that cultivating compassion is all about others’ benefit, whereas the first benefit is to us. Compassion brings us peace of mind. It attracts friends. Friends are based on trust and trust develops when we show concern for others." ~Dalai Lama
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.” ~Joseph Addison
"Two are better than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other one can lift him up." ~Book of Ecclesiastes
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VERSES:
Flowers are lovely;
love is flower-like;
friendship is a sheltering tree;
oh the joys that came down
shower-like of friendship,
love, and liberty.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),
English Poet, Philosopher
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"Friendship!
Mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweetener of life and solder of society!"
~Robert Blair
"Friendship with trees: true and pure,
One beautiful day from spring to summer.
Let yourself be free and spread your wings,
Keep calm and she will take you to heaven."
~Rado Gatchalian, short poem
"How sweet are the words spoken between friends
Just like a balm that heals or a needle that mends."
~Patricia Grantham
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"Slender at first, they quickly gather force,
Growing in richness as they run their course;
Once started, they do not turn back again:
Rivers, and years, and friendships with good men."
~Sanskrit poem
"The thread of our life would be dark,
Heaven knows!
If it were not with friendship and love
intertwined."
~Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
True Friends..
Good friends care for each other,
Close friends understand each other,
but True friends stay forever,
beyond Words,
beyond Distance,
beyond Time.
~Anon
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