Quotes on Friendship

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please 
continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
    - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care 
in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
 - Randolph S. Bourne
What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with 
whom you dare to be yourself.
 - Frank Crane
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like 
the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important 
thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a 
meaningful day.  
 - Dalai Lama
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly 
not born until they arrive.
 - Anais Nin
I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people 
are just idiots. I've learned. . . that we don't have to change 
friends if we understand that friends change. I've learned
that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you 
every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
 - Unknown
The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. 
The ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time 
where nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every 
road led home.
 - The Wonder Years
At home one relies on parents; away from home one relies 
on friends. 
 - Chinese Proverb
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. 
 - Yassir Arafat
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with 
friends and family.
 - Barbara Bush
Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick 
together and never really say Goodbye
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say 
disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into 
relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy 
become.
 - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.
 - Sicilian Proverb
Interiorly, most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. 
 - Lord Chesterfeild
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
 - Thucydides
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
 - Apocrypha
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
Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, 
it may soon run itself out of breath.
 - Fuller
The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen 
plainest when all around is dark.
 - Crowell
Friendship is a treasure that always help us overcome any kind
of difficulty, Friendship is a comfort for, somehow  which 
always understand worries and emotions, Friendship is a 
blessing because it teaches the way to live.
 - Unknown
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really 
interested in other people than you can in two years by trying 
to get people interested in you.
 - Ann Landers
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg 
even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
 - Erich Segal
True Friendship never dies
A true friend is there always
Through good times and bad
Through sorrow and grief
A true friend will never walk away
They are here to stay 
They are heaven sent from above
God's Special Angels full of love
And such Grace, You will know
Them from the smiles upon their face.
Sent to you from the Lord God above!
 - Karen Sue Magee
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

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're 
very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them 
everywhere.
      - Zig Ziglar
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets 
you have total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel. 
Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is 
fine with them. That's what real love amounts to — letting a 
person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you 
pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending 
— performing. You get to love your pretense. It's true, we're 
locked in an image, an act — and the sad thing is, people get 
so used to their image — they grow attached to their masks. They 
love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. 
And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it — they feel 
like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.
 - Jim Morrison
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a 
bunch of bastards. 
 - R. A. Dickson
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe 
with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure 
words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain 
together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, 
keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of 
kindness, blow the rest away.
        - George Elliot
The only service a friend can really render is to keep your 
courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a 
noble image of yourself.
 - George Bernard Shaw
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying 
my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.  
 - E. M. Forster
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must 
love friends for their sake rather than for our own. 
 - Bronte Charlotte
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
Never injure a friend, even in jest.     
 - Marcus Tullius Cicero
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity 
not one in twenty.    
 - English Proverb
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend 
until he is unhappy.     
 - Thomas Fuller
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.     
 - William Blake
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies 
your right to grow.    
 - Alice Walker
...as we bend with the wind, and change with the times... 
We will always have our friendship.
 - Unknown
You can bank on any friendship where interest is paid.
 - Gordon Preiser
Volunteers are caring friends
 - Don Williams
To betray a friend is worse than to be betrayed by one. 
 - Unknown
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a 
slow-ripening fruit.
 - Aristotle
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath 
found such an one hath found a treasure.
 - Ecclesiasticus 6:14
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which 
there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more 
personal liking.
 - George Eliot
Dreams are wishes cast upon stars, so catch a shining one,
take your friend's hand and hold on forever
 - Traci Brown
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and 
beautiful things of life.
 - James F. Byrnes
If I'm not good enough to be a friend
Than, you need to like your self first
Cause there is nothing wrong with me.
 - Karen S.Magee
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold 
himself.
        - Marjorie Holmes
I chose a friend because I needed a friend, if I had wanted 
a knife I would have bought one.
 - Unknown
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and 
without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become 
tedious.
 - St. Thomas Aquinas
In a friend you find a second self.
 - Isabelle Norton
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering 
what one receives.
 - Dumas The Younger
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in 
their best light.
 - Jennie Jerome Churchill
It is not so much our friend's help that helps us, as the 
confidence of their help.
 - Epicurus
Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world.  
 -  Henry James
I never had better friends than the friends I had when I was 
twelve. Jesus, does anyone?
 - Stand By Me
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by 
adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot 
congeal in winter.
 - James Fenimore Cooper
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the 
goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
     - Ann Landers
A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so 
good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're 
not so bad.  
 - Anonymous
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each 
other to persevere in the road to a happier life. 
        - Pythagoras (582BC-507BC) Greek mathemetician, philosopher
Silence makes the real conversation between friends.  Not the 
saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
 - Anonymous
Our best friends are those who know their faults well enough 
to forgive us ours.
 - Moulton H. Farnham
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about 
yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend 
who loves you dearly.
 - Antisthenes
When you are too busy for friends, you are too busy.
 - Unknown
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be 
going down.
     - Arnold H. Glasow
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can 
grow separately without growing apart.
     - Elisabeth Foley
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
 - Kahlil Gibran
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap 
for the favor of the kings of the world. 
 - Thomas Edison
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of
ones heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands 
will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a 
breath of kindness, blow and rest away.
 - George Eliot
 
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to 
be stupid with them.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
 - Billie Holiday
We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
 - Winnie the Pooh
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of 
honey left inside.
 - A.A. Milne
I get by with a little help from my friends. 
 -John Lennon
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet 
never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
 -Mary Catherwood
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has 
no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value 
to survival.
 -C. S. Lewis
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me 
to do up a parcel.
 -Logan Pearsall Smith
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. 
 -Abraham Lincoln
I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, 
encourage me to grow.
 -Cher
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. 
 -Mencius
True friendship is never serene. 
 -Mariede Svign
It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. 
 -Marlene Dietrick
A friend is a gift you give yourself. 
 -Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The best mirror is an old friend. 
 -George Herbert
What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies. 
 -Aristotle
The friendship that can cease has never been real. 
 -Saint Jerome
I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring 
my good friends.
 -William Shakespeare
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, 
the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
 -Thomas Jefferson
Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends 
absent speak.
 -John Donne
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, 
trusted to the end.
 -John Boyle O'Reilly
Friends have all things in common.
 -Plato
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all 
other goods. 
 -Artistotle
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 
 -Henry Ford
It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and 
auspicious bird of calm...
 -Shelly
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. 
 -Wilson Mizner
A friend is one who believes in you when you have
ceased to believe in yourself.
        - Unknown
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the 
anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
        - Robert Southey (1774-1843)
From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love 
of friends.
        - Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) English writer, poet 
Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant 
the most.
        - Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956) US women's golfer
Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there
and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.
        - Al Unser, Jr. (1962-) US auto racer
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may 
think aloud.
          - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
          - Fr. Jerome Cummings
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks 
out.
          - Walter Winchell
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your 
successes.
          - Doug Larson
He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends,
loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.
 -Spanish Maxim
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
 -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 haven't really 
learned anything.
 -Muhammad Ali
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the 
unforgivable.
 -John D. MacDonald
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you 
meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand 
years. 
 - Richard Bach,  Illusions
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. 
 - Henry David Thoreau
He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, 
While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere.
 -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
 -Bumper Sticker
Never forget your friends, they are your roots to life, and 
with the memories lost, you will just blow in the wind...
 -Christopher Allen Weller
My friends are my estate. 
 - Emily Dickinson
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to 
exchange small favors for big ones.
 -Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
He who seeks a friend without fault remains without.  
 -Old Turkish Proverb 
Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies.
        - Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it 
for my sake.
        - Aristotle
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is 
full of friends.
        - Euripides
There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost 
thoughts in another.
        - Oliver Schreiner
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred 
minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
        - Winnie the Pooh
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is 
seldom known until it be lost.
        - Charles Caleb Colton
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind 
me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
        - Albert Camus
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
       -Unknown
Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.
       -Unknown
Friends are God's way of taking care of us.
       -Unknown
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
       -Stone Temple Pilots
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
       -Dave Matthews Band
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with
them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
       -Unknown
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best
friends listen to what you don't say.
       -Unknown
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, 
we take a little of each other everywhere.
       - Tim McGraw
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five 
real friends, then you've had a great life.
       -Lee Iacocca
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
       -Nigerian Proverb
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing 
it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
       -Unknown
Count your age with friends but not with years.
        - Anonymous
Collected 
             By 
                 Rahamath Sweet