Friendship Quotes...

Friendship Quotes

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others

to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

- A. A. Milne, 'Winnie The Pooh'

"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

- Jacques Delille

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship?

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what

you pay for him."

- George Dennison Prentice

"A friend is someone who lets you have total

freedom to be yourself."

- Jim Morrison

"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."

- Author Unknown

"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

"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

"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

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

- Norman Douglas

"The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and

loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole

lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

- Mark Twain

Friendship Quotes and a Verse...

Friendship Quotes and a Verse

"If one person falls, the other can reach out and help.

But someone who falls alone is in real trouble."

- Ecclesiastes 4:10

"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



"Without friends, no one would choose to live,

though he had all other goods."

- Aristotle

"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when

we realize we have discovered a friend."

- William Rotsler

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few,

and let those few be well-tried before you give them

your confidence. 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

"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts,

and the bond there of virtue."

- Samuel Johnson

“A true friend gives freely,

advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly,

takes all patiently, defends courageously,

and continues a friend unchangeably.”

- William Penn

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

- Baltasar Gracian

"False friendships, like the ivy, decays and ruins the

walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and

animation to the object it supports."

- Richard Burton

"We love those who know the worst of us and

don't turn their faces away."

- Walker Percy

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry;

I to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,

and have her nonsense respected."

- Charles Lamb