Friendship Quotes and a Verse...

Friendship Quotes and a Verse

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work;

If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls

and has no one to help him up!

- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway."

- Christi Mary Warner

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and

aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to

noble deeds."

- Aristotle

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

- Euripedes

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of

yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

- Laurence J. Peter

"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

- Norman Douglas

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the

man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

I wove my webs for you because I liked you. By helping you,

perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows

anyone's life can stand a little of that."

- E. B. White, 'Charlotte's Web'

"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good

friend you don't need an analyst."

- Joan Crawford

* dedicated to those few people who are oh-so-very special to me. 
You know who you are... male and female, I can count you on
one hand.  I love each of you!!

Friendship Quotes and Verses...

Friendship Quotes and Verses


"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up,
just as in fact you are doing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11
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"A friend loves at all times... "
- Proverbs 17:17
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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln
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“What greater thing is there for human souls than to
feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other
in silent unspeakable memories.”
- George Eliot
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“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is
the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a
young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'Sacrifice
almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'
I know I am very fortunate in that respect.”
- C. S. Lewis
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"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because,
of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater
or better than friendship."
- Pietro Aretino
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"The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart."
- Elisabeth Foley
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"Women give nothing to friendship except what
they borrow from love."
- Seneca
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"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that, when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut, they will give up their secrets, but
I have found that when I silently commune with people they
give up their secrets also - if you love them enough."
- George Washington
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"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected."
- Charles Lamb

Friendship Quotes...

Friendship Quotes
(Part 3)

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
- George Washington
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“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us,
but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little
objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules
of life and become better players of the game.”
- Will Durant
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect
a great deal of each other but never ask it."
- Sylvia Bremer
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"The difference between friendship and love is how much
you can hurt each other."
- Ashleigh Brilliant
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"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past,
a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."
- Lois Wyse
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"Life without friendship would be like a day without sunshine,
a flower without fragrance."
- Helen Farries
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"Do not protect yourself by a fence but rather by your friends."
- A Czech Proverb
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"Count your joys instead of your woes.
Count your friends instead of your foes."
- An Irish Proverb
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"A man can not be said to succeed in this life who does not
satisfy one friend."
- Henry David Thoreau
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"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever."
- A. A. Milne, 'Winnie The Pooh'