by Gisela » 22 Oct 2012, 18:52
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton
"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
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha
"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 (also attributed to Maimonidies). Sent by clovers
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- sent by Steve
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes)
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes)
Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."
- William Blake, sent in by Lauren
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
- Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.
"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet.
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist.
"Keep your friendships in repair."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (as above)
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer.
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
- Samuel Johnston, (as above)
"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) French writer.
"If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!"
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) British dramatist.
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington (1732 - 1799) US Statesman.
"True 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, (as above)
"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
- George Washington, (as above)
"Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'?"
- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) Scottish poet.
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (341 - 270 BC) Greek philosopher.
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (as above)
"These are called the pious frauds of friendship."
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754) British novelist.
"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
- Samuel Johnston (1709 - 1784) British lexicographer.
"Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince."
- Samuel Johnston, (as above)
"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
- Sallust (86 - 334 BC) Roman historian
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides, Greek playwrite
"My friends are my estate."
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
- Socrates, Greek Philosopher
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
- Woodrow Wilson
"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
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
"The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship."
- William Blake
"Friendship is love without his wings"
- Lord Byron
"Friendship is love with wings."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Cicero
"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott
"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."
- William Yeats
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
- Helen Keller
"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