Friday, September 14, 2012

Friendship Quotes

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


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


A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. 
Elbert Hubbard 


A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. 
Robert Hall 


A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. 
Pam Brown 


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

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


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. 
Leo Buscaglia 


Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. 
George Washington 


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


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. 
Oprah Winfrey 


A friend to all is a friend to none. 
Aristotle 


But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. 
Thomas Jefferson 


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. 
Robert Brault 


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. 
Albert Schweitzer 


Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. 
Aristotle 


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. 
Marcel Proust 


A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. 
Bil Keane 


A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. 
John D. Rockefeller 


Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. 
Margaret Walker


I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. 
Plutarch 


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 
Henri Nouwen 


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? 
Abraham Lincoln 


Friends are born, not made. 
Henry B. Adams 


Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. 
William Butler Yeats 


A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. 
Jim Morrison

True friends stab you in the front. 
Oscar Wilde 


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


Friends show their love in times of trouble. 
Euripides 


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 


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. 
Khalil Gibran 


Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. 
Elbert Hubbard 


Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh 


Friendship and money: oil and water. 
Mario Puzo 


If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. 
Alice Duer Miller 


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


A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 


Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. 
Socrates 


A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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 


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


A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. 
William Penn 


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. 
Shirley MacLaine 


It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. 
Marlene Dietrich 


The language of friendship is not words but meanings. 
Henry David Thoreau

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. 
Anais Nin 


One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. 
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 


When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. 
W. Somerset Maugham 


I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. 
Katherine Mansfield 


Friendship is one mind in two bodies. 
Mencius 


There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. 
Thomas Aquinas 


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


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 
Henry David Thoreau 


Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. 
Margaret Lee Runbeck 


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. 
Plautus 


An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. 
Oscar Wilde 


She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. 
Toni Morrison 


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. 
Edward W. Howe 


Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. 
Charles Alexander Eastman


He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. 
Oscar Wilde 

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. 
Elbert Hubbard 

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. 
Saint Francis de Sales 

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. 
Dag Hammarskjold 

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

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 MacDonald 

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. 
Joseph Roux 

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. 
Giotto di Bondone 

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. 
John Leonard 

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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. 
Henry David Thoreau 

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. 
Chanakya 

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. 
Confucius 

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. 
Helen Keller 

A friend is, as it were, a second self. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. 
Charles R. Swindoll 

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. 
Friedrich Nietzsche 

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. 
Jean de La Fontaine


Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. 
Friedrich Nietzsche 


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



Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. 
Judy Holliday 



Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. 
Sarah Orne Jewett 


Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. 
Benjamin Franklin 


Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. 
Oscar Wilde

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. 
Baltasar Gracian 


Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. 
Jane Austen 


The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. 
William Blake 


Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. 
Edward W. Howe 


He who hath many friends hath none. 
Aristotle 


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


If you have one true friend you have more than your share. 
Thomas Fuller 


Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 


A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. 
Len Wein 


Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. 
Baltasar Gracian 


The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. 
Ulysses S. Grant 


So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. 
Helen Keller 


The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? 
Eugene Kennedy 


Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. 
Francesco Guicciardini 



Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. 
Emil Ludwig 



Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. 
Khalil Gibran 



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



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 


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. 
Virginia Woolf 


Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. 
Confucius

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. 
Joseph Brodsky 


Love demands infinitely less than friendship. 
George Jean Nathan 


The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. 
Hubert H. Humphrey 


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. 
George Santayana 


A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. 
Charles Darwin 


Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. 
Euripides 


A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. 
Walter Winchell 


The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. 
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 


Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. 
Honore de Balzac 


All you need to do to be my friend is like me. 
Taylor Swift 


As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
King Solomon 


Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. 
Samuel Pepys 


A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. 
Logan P. Smith 


Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. 
Amos Bronson Alcott

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