Friendship
- Am I not destroying my enemies what I make friends of them?--Abraham Lincoln
- The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.--Anonymous
- The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.--G. T. Hewitt
- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.--Abraham Lincoln
- By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men and women are capable.--Jeremy Taylor
- Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.--Amanda Bradley
- Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.--Marie Louise De La Ramee (aka Ouida)
- Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.--Unknown
- Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead, do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.--Anna Cummins
- Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.--Richard Bach (Illusions)
- 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.--Albert Camus
- 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 man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
- Every one that flatters thee
Is no friend in misery.
Words are easy, like the wind,
Faithful friends are hard to find.--Richard Barnfield (Poems)
- False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.--Christian Nevell Bovee
- Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.--Jacques Delille (Malheur et Pitié)
- For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.--Christina Rosetti
- A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.--Anonymous
- A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't.--Bern Williams
- A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?--Kahlil Gibran
- Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.--Aristotle
- Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.--Ed Cunningham
- Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.--William Mather
- 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 doubles our joy and divides our grief.--Swedish proverb
- 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
- 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 like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler
- Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn
- Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson
- 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
- Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman
- Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.--Joseph Addison
- The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.--Sarah Orne Jewett
- He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.--James Howell ("French" Paroimiographia)
- Hold a true friend with both hands.--Nigerian proverb
- An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.--Proverbs 24:26
- I can trust my friends... These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.--Cher
- 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
- I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.--Jimmy Buffet (A Pirate Looks At 50)
- I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.--Walt Whitman
- I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.--William Barclay
- "I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."--A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
- I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.--Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
- If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.--Charlotte Bronte
- If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
- In my friend, I find a second self.--Isabel Norton
- It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.--Epicurus
- It is our families that shape us from the very beginning, but it is our friends that truly define us down the road. They are the ones we get to invite into our lives.--Courtney E. Martin ("In Praise of Chosen Family")
- ...it is the greatest mistake, both in life and in literature, to suppose that love is the difficult, the complicated thing. It is not love, it is friendship, which is the great problem of civilized society. The other is quite elemental beside it.--Mary Adams (Confessions of a Wife)
- It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.--Zora Neale Hurston
- It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset.--Erynn Miller
- It’s not that theological dialogue isn’t important. But we all know how we make deep friendships with work colleagues. Unity isn’t always negotiated. Sometimes it’s discovered.--Graham James ("Thought for the Day," Oct. 5, 2016)
- It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.-- Marlene Dietrich (Popcorn in Paradise)
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.--Oscar Wilde
- Life is fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.--Sydney Smith
- 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 mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.--Washington Irving
- Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.--A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
- Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out to ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.--Madame de Tencin
- No matter where we are we need those friends who trudge across from their neighborhoods to ours.--Stephen Peters
- No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.--Alice Walker
- Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.--Henry David Thoreau
- Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are--chaff and grain together--certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away...--Dinah Mulock
- An old friendship is like an old tree, with rings and rings of shared eperiences under the outer bark, making the friendship thicker and taller.-- Susan Moon (This is Getting Old: Zen thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity)
- One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.--Henry Brooks Adams (Education)
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.--Euripides
- One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.--Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.--Edith Wharton
- The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.--Ralph Waldo Emerson\
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.--Thomas Jefferson
- The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.--Pearl S. Buck
- The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.--Katherine Mansfield
- People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes - pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.--Helen Gurley Brown
- A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.--Herodotus
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.--Walter Winchell
- Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but mostly it will be spilled. A relationships is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.--Kahlil Jamison
- Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)
- Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.--Anonymous
- 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--Octavia Butler
- "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.--Louisa May Alcott
- There can be no friendship without confidence, an no confidence without integrity.--Samuel Johnson
- There is a point where you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. It doesn't happen for everyone--but it did for Mom and me.--Jamie Lee Curtis
- There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.--Linda Grayson
- To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.--Napoleon I
- To have a good friend is one of the highest delights in life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.--Anonymous
- Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.--Joshua Loth Liebman
- Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.--Jennie Jerome Churchill
- A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.--Christi Mary Warner
- A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!--Doug Larson
- A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.--Heather Pryor
- True friends...face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.--C. S. Lewis
- True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.--Dave Tyson Gentry
- True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon)
- Two shorten the road.--Irish proverb
- Value the friends you have while they're around, you never know when they'll be gone.--Darin Gosling
- We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.-- Barbara Colorose
- We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.--Lettie Cottin Pogrebin
- We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.--Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin
- What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!--Colette
- What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.--Aristotle
- 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 friendships are real, they are not glass threads, or frostwork, but the solidest things we know. A friend is the first person who come in when the whole world has gone out.--Anonymous
- When you need a friend most is when no one is cheering.--K. C. Jones
- Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there,
You've got a friend.--Carol King
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.--Aristotle
- 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 other people interested in you.--Dale Carnegie
- You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you--without these friendships--life, what cauchemar!--T. S. Eliot
- You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.--Ivan Turgenev
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