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...

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

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'

Friendship Quotes and Verses...

Friendship Quotes and Verses
(Part 2)

"If one person falls, the other can reach out and help.
But someone who falls alone is in real trouble."
- Ecclesiastes 4:10
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"A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
- Proverbs 18:24
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
- Cicero
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"What is a friend? A single soul
dwelling in two bodies."
- Aristotle
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity."
- Kahlil Gibran
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"Who finds a friend finds treasure."
- An Irish Proverb
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
- George Washington
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"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
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"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly embracing each other."
- Luciano Decrescenzo
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"Wherever we are, it is our friends
that make our world."
- Henry Drummond
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"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever."
- Francois Mauriac
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"I offer you peace. I offer you love.
I offer you friendship. I see your beauty.
I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute the Source in you. Let us work
together for unity and love."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship Quotes...

Friendship Quotes

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
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"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in they need."
- William Shakespeare
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"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
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"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you
believe that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
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"We shall never have friends if we expect
to find them without fault."
- Thomas Fuller
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"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good
egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
- Bernard Meltzer
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"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly
frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
- Mignon McLaughlin
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"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair
or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and
bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing,
not curing... that is a friend who cares."
- Henri Nouwen
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"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of
those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
- Robert Southey
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"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe,
and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- A. A. Milne, Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh
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"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends
can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."
- Clifton Fadiman
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"Friends are the Linus' Blanket of life."
- HBS, Daily Thoughts