Friendship is the hardest thing in the world
to explain. It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything.
?Muhammad Ali
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Others stay awhile, make footprints on our
hearts and we are never, ever the same.
?Unknown
Make new friends but keep the old ones;
one is silver and the other's gold.
?Anonymous
My friend, why have you drifted so far away?
All motion is relative, maybe it is you
who have moved away by standing still.
?Anonymous
Give me one friend, just one, who meets
the needs of all my varying moods.
?Esther M. Clark
If we would build on a sure foundation
in friendship, we must love friends
for their sake rather than for our own.
?Charlotte Bronte
A true friend is someone who thinks that
you are a good egg even though he
knows that you are slightly cracked.
?Bernard Meltzer
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
?George Washington
Friends are born, not made.
?Henry Adams
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
?Anonymous
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
?Aristotle
A friend loveth at all times.
?Bible, Proverbs 17:17
Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship-never.
?Charles Caleb Colton
A friend may well be reckoned
the masterpiece of nature.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
?Euripides
It is in the thirties that we want friends.
In the forties we know they won't save us
any more than love did.
?F Scott Fitzgerald
We do not regret the loss of our friends by
reasons of their merit, but because of our
needs and for the good opinion that
we believed them to have held of us.
?François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
God gives us our relatives- thank
God we can choose our friends.
?Ethel Watts Mumford
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
?George Jean Nathan
Women can form a friendship with a man
very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight
physical antipathy must probably help.
?Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
?Nigerian Proverb
Friendship is constant in all other things
save in the office and affairs of love.
?William Shakespeare
The mere process of growing old together will make
the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
?Logan Pearsall Smith
A man cannot be said to succeed in this
life who does not satisfy one friend.
?Henry David Thoreau
Greater love hath no man than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends.
?Bible, John 15:13
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody
will side with you when you are in the right.
?Mark Twain
Friendship is the marriage of the soul,
and this marriage is liable to divorce.
?Voltaire
Laughter is not at all a bad
beginning for a friendship, and it
is far the best ending for one.
?Oscar Wilde
Some people go to priests; others
to poetry; I to my friends.
?Virginia Woolf
Chide a friend in private
and praise him in public.
?Solon
Depend on no man, on no friend, but him
who can depend on himself. He only
who acts conscientiously towards himself
will act so towards others, and vice versa.
?Lavater
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
If you want enemies, excel others;
if you want friends let others excel you.
?Colton
Old friends are best. King James
used to call for his old shoes;
they were easiest to his feet.
?John Seldon
There's not so much danger in a known
foe than in a suspected friend.
?Nabb
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
?Syrus
True friendship is like sound health,
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
?Charles Caleb Colton
We cherish our friends not for their
ability to amuse us,
but for ours to amuse them.
?Evelyn Waugh
Who purposely cheats his
friend, would cheat his God.
?Lavater
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
?Samuel Butler
A friend is a person with whom I may be
sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson,
If all men knew what others say of them,
there would not be four friends in the world.
?Blaise Pascal
I don't need a friend who changes when
I change and who nods when I nod;
my shadow does that much better.
?Plutarch
There is as much difference between the
counsel that a friend giveth, and that a
man giveth himself, as there is between
counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
?Francis Bacon
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves,
we shall be honest with each other.
?George Macdonald
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
?Cicero
Friendship is Love without his wings!
?Byron
To give counsel as well as to take
it is a feature of true friendship.
?Cicero
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
?Shakespeare
That friendship will not continue
to the end which is begun for an end.
?Quarles
He who has not the weakness of
friendship has not the strength.
?Joubert
Every friend is to the other a
sun, and a sunflower also.
?Richter
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we
show the worst, but the best of our nature.
?Nathaniel Hawthorne
The rule of friendship means there should
be mutual sympathy between them, each
supplying what the other lacks and trying to
benefit the other,
always using friendly and sincere words.
?Buddha
Friendship always benefits;
love sometimes injures.
?Seneca
The mind is lowered through association
with inferiors. With equals it attains
equality; and with superiors, superiority.
?The Hitopadesa
Rare as is true love,
true friendship is rarer.
?La Fontaine
The more we love our friends, the less
we flatter them; is by excusing nothing
that pure love shows itself.
?Moliere
One friend in a lifetime is much;
two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life,
a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
?Henry Brook Adams
A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
?Lord Samuel
While your friend holds you affectionately
by both your hands you are safe,
for you can watch both of his.
?Anonymous
Even the best of friends cannot
attend each other's funeral.
?Kehlog Albran
The most I can do for my friend
is simply be his friend.
?Henry David Thoreau
There are friendships to one who lives in society;
thus our present grief arises from having friendships;
observing the evils resulting from friendship,
let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
?Buddha
The best way to destroy your enemy
is to make him your friend.
?Abraham Lincoln
If a man does not make new acquaintances,
as he advances through life, he soon will find
himself alone. A man should
keep his friendship in constant repair.
?Samuel Johnson
You should never second-guess the motives
of your true friends. You don't even have to
analyze their actions because you know,
at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think
flows in some fundamental way
from the fact that they love you.
?Star Jones
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited,
but in adversity they come without invitation.
?Theophrastus
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
?George Washington
But friendship is precious, not only in the
shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks
to a benevolent arrangement of things,
the greater part of life is sunshine.
?Thomas Jefferson
True friendship brings sunshine to the
shade, and shade to the sunshine
?Thomas Burke
