friendship

Friendship Quotes
Love is friendship set on fire....Jeremy Taylor.Friendship often ends in love; but love infriendship, never....Charles Caleb Colton.The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words...hearingunspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understandingthe silent things that only true friends know....Unknown.Friendship, said Pooh, is a very comforting thing....A. A. Milne.Truly great friends are hard to find, difficultto leave, and impossible to forget....G. Randolf.Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.Just walk beside me and be my friend forever....George Fox.The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor thekindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritualinspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone elsebelieves in him and is willing to trust him....Ralph Waldo Emerson.A friend is one who knows us, but lovesus anyway....Fr. Jerome Cummings.True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks....St. Jerome.Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloamingwherein our hearts find peace....Alphonse De Lamartine.Of all the things which wisdom provides tomake us entirely happy, much the greatestis the possession of friendship....Epicurus.A friend is someone who knows the song inyour heart, and can sing it back to you whenyou have forgotten the words....Donna Roberts.However rare true love may be, it is less so thantrue friendship....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.The only way to have a friend isto be one....Ralph Waldo Emerson.Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures,and without friends even the most agreeablepursuits become tedious....St. Thomas Aquinas.Nothing so fortifies a friendship as abelief on the part of one friend that heis superior to the other....Honore De Balzac.Friendship is love with understanding....Ancient Proverb.Though friendship is not quick to burn,it is explosive stuff....May Sarton.No distance of place or lapse of time can lessenthe friendship of those who are throughoutpersuaded of each other's worth....Robert Southey.True friendship comes when silence between twopeople is comfortable....David Tyson Gentry.If you should die before me ask if you cantake a friend....Stone Temple Pilots.A friend is someone who doesn't likethe same people you do....Proverb.A true friend walks in when the restof the world walks out....Unknown.A guy and a girl can be just friends but at onepoint or another one of them will fall for the other,maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybetoo late or maybe, just maybe...forever....Unknown.Friends are God's way of taking care of us....Unknown.Everyone hears what you say.Friends listen to what you say.Best friends listen to what you don't say....Unknown.Friendship is love minus sex plus reason:Love is friendship plus sex minus reason....Unknown.There are small ships and big ships butthe best ships are friendships....Unknown.Don't tell your friends their socialfaults; they will cure the fault andnever forgive you....Logan Pearsall Smith.A benevolent man should allow a fewfaults in himself, to keep his friendsin countenance....Benjamin Franklin.Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness....Richard Bach.I get by with a little help from my friends....John Lennon.Wishing to be friends is quick work,but friendship is slow-ripening fruit....Aristotle.Friendship without self-interestis one of the rare and beautifulthings of life....James Francis Byrnes.There can be no friendship without confidence,and no confidence without integrity....Dr. Samuel Johnson.If we judge of love by its usual effects,it resembles hatred more thanfriendship....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.Friendship with oneself is all important,because without it one cannot be friendswith anyone else in the world....Eleanor Roosevelt.The more we love our friends, the less weflatter them; it is by excusing nothingthat pure love shows itself....Moliere.Giving us a friend is the simple way Godtells us that He really cares....Unknown.Friendship is not always the sequelof obligation....Samuel Johnson.The first time I read an excellent work, it is tome just as if I gained a new friend; and when I readover a book I have perused before, it resemblesthe meeting of an old one....James Goldsmith.A friend is one who walks in whenothers walk out....Walter Winchell.Your friend is the man who knows all aboutyou, and still likes you....Elbert Hubbard.I do then with my friends, as I do with my books.I would have them where I can find them,but I seldom use them....Ralph Waldo Emerson.A true friend bosoms freely, assists readily, adventuresboldly, takes all patiently, defends courageouslyand continues a friend unchangeably....William Penn.It is my friends who have made the story of my life.In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations intobeautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene andhappy through the shadow cast by my deprivation....Helen Keller.So long as we are loved by others I should saythat we are almost indispensable; and no man isuseless while he has a friend....Robert Louis Stevenson.It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tellyour friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannotbear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truththrough loving words, that is friendship....Henry Ward Beecher.The language of friendship is not words but meanings.It is an intelligence about language....Henry David Thoreau.Some of the most rewarding and beautiful momentsof a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spacesbetween planned activities. It is important that youallow these spaces to exist....Christine Leefeldt.One of the surest evidences of friendship that oneindividual can display to another is telling him gentlyof a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listeningto such a disclosure with gratitude, and amendingthe error....Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton.Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;prosperity is full of friends....Euripedes.Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised.No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet,gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to mewithout embarrassment or awkwardness....Helen Adams Keller.Friendship is a horizon -- which expandswhenever we approach it....E. R. Hazlip.Friendship improves happiness, andabates misery, by doubling our joys,and dividing our grief....Joseph Addison.Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feelingsafe with a person, having neither to weighthoughts nor measure words....George Eliot.There is an important difference between love and friendship.While the former delights in extremes and opposites,the latter demands equality....Francoise d'Aubigné Maintenon.Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease ofour passions, the discharge of our oppressions,the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor ofour doubts, the clarity of our minds....Jeremy Taylor.The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady andloyal and enduring in nature that it will last through awhole lifetime, if not asked to lend money....Mark Twain.Good friends must not always be togetherIt is the feeling of oneness when distantThat proves a lasting friendship....Susan P. Schultz.The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makesstrangers of people who would be friends....Shirley Maclaine.A friend may well be reckoned themasterpiece of nature....Ralph Waldo Emerson.Every friend is to the other a sun,and a sunflower also....Richter.It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almostas quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friendswill be like the elves and the pixies -- fabulousmythical creatures from a distant past....C. S. Lewis.A friend is a close companion on the rainy days,someone to share with through every phase.Forgiving and helping to bring the best,believing the good and forgetting the rest....1 Corinthians 13:7.Friendships are fragile things, and requireas much handling as any other fragileand precious thing....Randolph S. Bourne.I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don'tbelieve I deserved my friends....Walt Whitman.True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does notdepend on darkness and ignorance....Henry David Thoreau.Hold a true friend with bothyour hands....Nigerian Proverb.Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show theworst, but the best of our nature....Nathaniel Hawthorne.The best thing about friendship is that it just keepson getting better with the passing of time....Unknown.I can trust my friends. These people forceme to examine, encourage me to grow....Cher.The most beautiful discovery that truefriends can make is that they can growseparately without growing apart....Elizabeth Foley.A friend is someone who reaches for your hand,but touches your heart....Kathleen Grove.Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creativeforce. The friends who listen to us are the ones wemove toward. When we are listened to, it creates us,makes us unfold and expand....Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger.Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does notcompare with him....Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10.The steady discipline of intimatefriendship with Jesus results in menbecoming like Him....Harry Emerson Fosdick."Stay" is a charming word in aa friend's vocabulary....Louisa May Alcott.The proper office of a friend is to side with youwhen you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will sidewith you when you are in the right....Mark Twain.Go through your phone book, call people and ask themto drive you to the airport. The ones who will driveyou are your true friends. The rest aren't badpeople; they're just acquaintances....Jay Leno.Friends do not live in harmony merely, as somesay, but in melody....Henry David Thoreau.Friendships come and go,but families are forever....Kenny Rogers.Friendship is a sheltering tree....Samuel Taylor Coleridge.Friendship is a strong and habitualinclination in two persons to promote thegood and happiness of one another....Proverbs 17:17.True friendship is never serene....Marie De Rabutin-Chantal.Friends are like rainbows, they'rebright, beautiful, and you feela smile when they appear....Unknown.Friendship is like a jewel.Precious and rare....Unknown.Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,never an opportunity....Kahlil Gibran.I don't need a friend who changes when I changeand who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better....Plutarch.Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless....Unknown.You just remind me of what's really importantin life, friends, best friends...."Fried Green Tomatoes."Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'lessyou can catch a new one that's fit tomake an old one out of....Sarah Orne Jewett.Friend derives from a word meaning"free." A friend is someone whoallows us the space and freedom to be....Unknown.My best friend is the one who bringsout the best in me....Henry Ford.Friends are like pillars on your porch.Sometimes they hold you up andsometimes they lean on you....Unknown.I do not believe that friends are necessarilythe people you like best, they are merelythe people who got there first....Peter Ustinov.The way I look at it, you only make a once in alifetime friend once in a while...."The Little Rascals."You can never lose a true friend....Sable.A real friend is one who walks in when therest of the world walks out....Walter Winchell.A true friend is someone you can trustwith all your secrets.....Unknown.Friendship is born at that moment when oneperson says to another, What! You, too?I thought I was the only one....C.S. Lewis.Where you find true friendship,you find true love....Unknown.I've learned that true friendshipcontinues to grow, even over the longestdistance. Same goes for true love....Unknown.You have been my friend. That in itself is atremendous thing. After all, what's life anyway?We're born, we live, we die. By helping you,perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.Heaven knows, anyone's life can stand alittle of that....E.B. White's Charlotte's Web.The secret to friendship is beinga good listener....Unknown.Friends are like diamonds, becausediamonds are forever!....Unknown.One does not make friends. Onerecognizes them....Garth Henrichs.Friendship is what gets you through the badtimes and helps you enjoy the good times....Unknown.I am a friend, I sense that something iswrong and I am going to keep reaching outuntil you reach back...."Home Improvement."Friends are angels following you through life....Unknown.Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, likeart...It has no survival value; rather is one ofthose things that give value to survival....C. S. Lewis.Friends are those who nourish the spirit....Unknown.It is said that love is blind.Friendship, on the other hand,is clairvoyant....Philippe Soupault.True friendship, unlike love,always lasts forever....Unknown.If I should disappear today yet continueto exist...a true friend would hear mysilence, mourn my silence....and anxiouslyanticipate my reappearance....Unknown.A friend is one who knows who you are, understandswhere you have been, accepts what you have become,and still gently allows you to grow....William Shakespeare.The greatest challenge in being a friend is notlistening when words are spoken but hearing andfeeling even though there is nothing but silence....Unknown.A friend will break your heart, a friend will mend it,a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world,good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate....Unknown.Friends are those rare people who ask how we areand then wait to hear the answer....Ed Cunningham.A friend is someone who sees through youand still enjoys the view....Wilma Askinas.The feeling of friendship is like that of beingcomfortably filled with roast beef, love,like being enlivened with champagne....Samuel Johnson.Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts,and the bond there of virtue....Samuel Johnson.There can be no friendship when there is no freedom.Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fencedup in straight and narrow enclosures....William Penn.A true friend is one who is there for youwhen he'd rather be anywhere else....Len Wein.I didn't find my friends, the good Godgave them to me....Ralph Waldo Emerson.I've noticed your hostility towards him...I oughtto have guessed you were friends....Malcom Bradbury.I don't trust him. We're friends....Bertolt Brecht.Friend - a person known well to another and regarded withliking, affection and loyalty....Collins English Dictionary.A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of afriendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason,and indeed, all the sweets of life....Joseph Addison.What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someonewith whom you dare to be yourself....Frank Crane.Walking with a friend in the dark is betterthan walking alone in the light....Helen Keller.The friendship that can cease hasnever been real....Saint Jerome.To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love,are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodnessof heart, but of strength of mind....Paul Aubuchon.A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A gooddeed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,and he who plants kindness gathers love....Saint Basil.If we would build on a sure foundation infriendship, we must love friends for theirsake rather than for our own....Charlotte Bronte.Friends aren't jumper cables. You don'tthrow them into the trunk and pull themout for emergencies....Charlie Krueger.A true friend never gets in your way unlessyou happen to be going down....Robert Edwards.A FRIEND IS A PERSON...Who will help you in the hour of sickness;Who will lend you a dollar without deducting the interest;Who will help you uphill when you are sliding down;Who will defend you in the hour when others speak evil of you;Who will believe in your innocence until you admit your guilt;Who will say behind your back what he says to your face;Who will shake hands with you whereverhe meets you, even though you wear patches; andWho will do all these things without expecting any return....Dorothy C. Retsloff.A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as beingso much more. A friend is someone with whom we can relaxand just hang out, have fun and share our innermost thoughts-- deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or our hopes,joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe spaceto share your deepest thoughts and needs -- without worryof being judged, criticized or made to feel silly for feelingthe way you do. Friends cheer each other on, laugh and crytogether, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other.That's why friends are friends....Bettie and Jennifer Leigh Youngs.A true friend overlooks your broken fenceto admire your flowers....Unknown.Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightensadversity by dividing and sharing it....Cicero.The real test of friendship is: Can you literally donothing with the other person? Can you enjoy togetherthose moments of life that are utterly simple? They arethe moments people look back on at the end of lifeand number as their most sacred experiences....Eugene Kennedy.I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,but with the roughest courage. When they are real,they are not glass threads or frost-work, butthe solidest thing we know....Ralph Waldo Emerson.The friend who can be silent with us in a moment ofdespair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hourof grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing,not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of ourpowerlessness. That is the friend who cares....Henri Nouwen.There are those who pass like ships in the nightWho meet for a moment, then sail out of sightWith never a backwards glance of regretFolks we know briefly then quickly forget....Then there are those friends who sail togetherthrough quiet waters and stormy weatherHelping each other through joy and through strifeAnd they are the kind that give meaning to life....Unknown.Friendship is never established as an understoodrelation. It is a miracle which requires constantproofs. It is an exercise of the purest imaginationand of the rarest faith!....Henry David Thoreau.A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight,And walks with you in the shadows....Heather Kowalski.In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,but the silence of our friends....Martin Luther King Jr.The best things in life are never rationed.Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons....G.T. Hewitt.Remember that the most valuable antiquesare dear old friends....H. Jackson Brown.God saw a tear, and wiped it away witha smile from a friend....Unknown.When you ask God for a gift,Be thankful if He sends,Not diamonds, pearls or riches,but the love of real true friends....Helen Steiner Rice.If you had a friend who talked to you, like yousometimes talk to yourself, would you continueto hang around with that person?....Rob Bremer.No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born.There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling thatyour life is different and that your capacity to love andcare has miraculously been enlarged without any effort onyour part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebodymoves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded,the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you haduntil your friend moved in with you....Steve Tesich.Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for itis one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but aboveall, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciatingwhatever is noble and loving in another....Thomas Hughes.When it hurts to look back & you'rescared to look ahead, you can look besideyou & your best friend will be there....Unknown.The difference between a friend and anacquaintance is that a friend helps; anacquaintance merely advises....Bob Edwards.We are all travelers in the wilderness of thisworld, and the best that we find in ourtravels is an honest friend....Robert Louis Stevenson.A real friend is one who helps us tothink our best thoughts, do our noblestdeeds, and be our finest selves....Unknown.Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this worldas a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, towhom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of ourjoy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that hiscompany is an everlasting pleasure to us....Pilpay.Who is a mighty person? One who can control theiremotions, and make of an enemy a friend....Talmud.A good friend will encourage friends with theirlove, hugs, prayers and e-mail notes!....Evelyn Heinz.Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the gamewhen once caught, which he may have pursued with themost intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongestin pursuit; friendship in possession....Ralph Waldo Emerson.Two may talk together under the same rooffor many years, yet never really meet, and twoothers at first speech are old friends....Unknown.Friendships begin because, even without words,we understand how someone feels....Joan Walsh Anglund.Friendship is love without His wings....G.G. Byron.Treat your friends as you do your pictures and placethem in their best light....Jennie Jerome Churchill.Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needsof all my varying moods....Esther M. Clark.Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode:it is rather a life....David Grayson.If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advancesthrough life, he will soon find himself left alone; oneshould keep his friendships in constant repair....Samuel Johnson.Friendship is one mind in two bodies....Mencius.The best way to keep your friends isnot to give them away....Wilson Mizner.Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and saymy glory was I had such friends....William Butler Yeats.Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, makeevery day a holiday and celebrate just living!....Amanda Bradley.I am a big believer that you have to nourishany relationship. I am still very much a partof my friends' lives and they are very mucha part of my life. A First Lady who does nothave this source of strength and comfort canlose perspective and become isolated....Nancy Reagan.The best mirror is an old friend....George Herbert.Remember, the greatest gift is notfound in a store nor under a tree,but in the hearts of true friends....Cindy Lew.Friends...They cherish one another's hopes.They are kind to one another's dreams....Henry David Thoreau.Do not make friends who are comfortable tobe with. Make friends who will force youto lever yourself up....Thomas J. Watson, Sr.The friend in my adversity I shall always cherishmost. Sometimes being a friend means mastering theart of timing. There is a time for silence. A timeto let go and allow people to hurl themselves intotheir own destiny. And a time to prepare to pickup the pieces when it's all over....Octavia Butler.There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We areboth more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and morereflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited andmore serene. It is as though when we come in contact with ourfriend we enter into a different environment....Andrew M. Greely.So shall a friendship fill each heartWith perfume sweet as roses are,That even though we be apart,We'll scent the fragrance from afar....Georgia McCoy.Friendship consists in forgetting what one givesand remembering what one receives....Dumas.The Making of FriendsLife is sweet because of the friends we have madeAnd the things which in common we share;We want to live on, not because of ourselves,But because of the ones who would care.It's living and doing for somebody elseOn that all of life's splendor depends,And the joy of it all, when we count it all up,Is found in the making of friends....Edgar A. Guest.A true friend is someone who thinks that youare a good egg even though he knows thatyou are slightly cracked....Bernard Meltzer.You can make more friends in two months by becominginterested in other people than you can in two years bytrying to get other people interested in you....Dale Carnegie.A friend is a gift you give yourself....Robert Louis Stevenson.Friendship is like a bank account; you cannot continueto draw on it without making a deposit....Nicole Beale.In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion -- the mereknowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure,even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enoughthat they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distanceor time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence.It is in these things that it roots most deeply.It is from these things that it flowers....Pam Brown.Love is rarer than genius itself.And friendship is rarer than love....Charles Peguy.A friend loves at all times....Proverbs 17:17.A friend should be a master at guessing andkeeping still....Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.A good book is the best of friends, thesame today and forever....Martin Tupper.Be slow in choosing a friend,slower in changing....Benjamin Franklin.The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloomof my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoywith me the sunshine of my prosperity....Ulysses S. Grant.Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether inmarriage or in friendship, is conversation....Oscar Wilde.But every memory of friendship shared, even for ashort time, is a treasure, like sunshine and warmthin our lives, like a cool breeze on a humid day,like a shower of rain refreshing the earth....Unknown.Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlikeacquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike loversand married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike childrenand parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendshiphas no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract.So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freelyentered into, freely given, and freely exercised....Stephen Ambrose.Much of the vitality in a friendship lies inthe honoring of differences, not simply in theenjoyment of similarities....James Fredericks.It is hard to have a true friend,and it is harder to be the one....Nghia.Friends are like stars, you can't always seethem but you know that they're there....Unknown.Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story;inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain;guides like a heavenly vision....Newell Dwight Hillis.Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is justlike the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.The important thing is to make it meaningful: ameaningful friend -- or a meaningful day....Dalai Lama.Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whomyou may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...andwhatever lies upon the heart....Francis Bacon.Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thingwhich will survive all manner of bad treatment.But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error;it may die in an hour of a single unwise word....Ouida.A good friend remembers what we wereand sees what we can be....Janette Oake.A friend is one with whom you are comfortable,to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed,and for whom you are grateful....William Arthur Ward.An honest answer is the sign of true friendship....Proverbs 24:26.Friends are an extension of yourselfto those looking on....Unknown.Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessarybefore you can meet again. And meeting again, after momentsor lifetimes is certain for those who are friends....Richard Bach.When being together is more important thanwhat you do, you are a true friend....Unknown.The firmest friendships have been formed in mutualadversity, as iron is most strongly united bythe fiercest flame....Charles Caleb Colton.