Quotes - Friendship
...a good friend is the purest of God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. |
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~ FRANCIS FARMER American stage and screen actress |
A friend is a person whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. |
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~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet |
A friend is a present you give yourself. |
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~ ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer |
A friend is like a good bra, close to your heart, hard to find and supportive. |
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~ ANONYMOUS |
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. |
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~ ANONYMOUS |
A friend is someone who makes it easy. |
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~ HEIDI WILLS |
A friend is someone who Understands your past, Believes in your future and Accepts you today just the way you are. |
A friend is someone who Understands your past, Believes in your future and Accepts you today just the way you are. |
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying, "Boy that was fun." |
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~ JACK MILLER |
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. |
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~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet |
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. |
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~ ARISTOTLE Greek philosopher |
A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. |
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~ ANONYMOUS |
And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. |
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~ LONGFELLOW American educator and poet, who's work includes "Paul Revere's Ride" |
And we find at the end of a perfect day the soul of a friend we've made. |
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~ CARRIE JACOBS BOND America's first great female popular song composer. 1862-1946 |
Be who you are and say what you feel, because, those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. |
But every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it. |
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~ ELIZABETH SHANE |
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! |
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~ AMANDA BRADLEY Poet and essayist living in Brooklyn. She recently completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature, specializing in twentieth century poetry. She teaches composition and rhetoric and tutors in the writing center at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights. |
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you need is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. |
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~ OPRAH WINFREY American television presenter, media mogul and philanthropist. Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television |
Friends are born, not made. |
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~ HENRY BROOKS ADAMS |
Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here. |
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~ WILLIAM MATHER |
Friends, they are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams. |
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~ HENRY DAVID THOREAU American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, developement critic, surveryor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. Best known for the novel WALDEN and his essay CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE. |
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. |
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~ JOSEPH ADDISON English essayist and poet |
Friendship is a sheltering tree. |
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~ SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet, critic, philosopher |
Friendship is love without wings. |
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~ LORD BYRON British poet and leading figure in Romaticism |
Friendship needs no words. |
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~ DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Nobel Peace Prize 1961 |
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. |
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~ HILARIE BELLOC French-born writer and historian |
Hold a true friend with both your hands. |
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~ PROVERB |
However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer. |
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~ LA ROUCHEFOUCAULD French classical author |
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. |
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~ KATHERINE MANSFIELD |
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. |
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~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet |
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends. |
I feel it shelter to speak to you. |
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~ EMILY DICKINSON American poet |
I get by with a little help from my friends. |
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~ JOHN LENNON English rock musician, singer, songwriter, writer, artist, peace activist, actor, and gained worldwide fame as a founder member THE BEATLES. |
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've always been glad to be. I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way. |
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~ EDGAR A. GUEST American poet, made Poet Laureate of Michigan, only poet awared this honor |
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can; they all make me laugh. |
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~ WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Anglo-American poet |
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. |
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~ IRISH PROVERB |
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. |
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~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet |
Just as the outgoing tide returns to the ocean side... so the gift of outgoing friendship comes back to the giver. |
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~ KATHY LONG American kickboxer and five time world kickboxing champion |
Life has its rewards; A bowl full of berries, The smell of fudge cooking, The solf place on a baby's neck, and The look of love in a friend's eye. |
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~ MARVA RUSSELL |
Love is friendship set on fire. |
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~ JEREMY TAYLOR |
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. |
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~ GELETT BURGESS |
My friends give me a sense, not only of who I am, but of what I truly can become. |
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~ DAN GARLAND |
My very best friends are those who know without ever being told. |
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~ AUTHINE STEINBECK |
No man is the whole of himself. His friends are the rest of him. |
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~ GOOD LIFE ALMANAC |
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. |
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~ WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING |
Reinforce the stitch that ties us and I will do the same for you. |
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~ DORIS SCHWERIN Author |
Relationships create the fabric of our lives. They are the fibers that weave all things together. |
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~ EDEN FROUST |
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. |
The most important thing for anyone to know is that people can love us just the way we are. |
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~ MR. ROGERS MR. ROGERS NEIGHBORHOOD |
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. |
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~ GWYNETH PALTROW An Oscar-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award- winning American actress |
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. |
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~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI British Conservative statesman and literary figure |
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. |
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~ SARAH ORNE JEWETT American novelis and short story writer |
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends. |
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~ ANNE S. EATON |
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |
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~ CARL JUNG Swiss psychiatrist, founder of Analytical Psychology. Most notable ideas include, Pychological Archetypes, The Collective Unconsious, and Synchronicity. |
The road to the house of a friend is never long. |
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~ DANISH PROVERB |
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough. |
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~ NANCY SPAIN Prominent English broadcaster and journalist |
There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down. |
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~ WYLAND World-renowned marine artist |
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. |
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~ SAMUEL JOHNSON Samuel Johnson (often referred to as Dr Johnson) (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784) was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. |
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. |
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~ SOCRATES Greek philosopher |
There is nothing of this heart more proved than true friendship. |
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~ ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy, philosopher, theologian, 1225-1274 |
There's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. |
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~ HILARIE BELLOC French-born writer and historian |
There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another. |
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~ OLIVE SCHREINER South African author, pacifist, political activist, best known for her novel THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM |
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. |
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~ ANAIS NIN |
To me, fair friend, you can never be old; for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. |
Treat your friends as you do pictures, and place them in their best light. |
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~ JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL Mother of Winston Churchill |
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. |
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~ BEN JONSON English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, best known for his satirical plays. |
We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same. |
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~ JONATHAN SWIFT Irish author and journalist |
We've been through so much together and most of it was your fault. |
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~ LAUREN ROTHCHILD |
When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in position, through the alliance, to absorb power directly from the great storehouse of Infinite Intelligence. |
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~ NAPOLEON HILL Napoleon Hill (October 25, 1883–November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. |
Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world... |
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~ WILLIAM JAMES Pioneering American psychologist and philosopher, trained as a medical doctor |
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities. |
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~ HELEN KELLER American author, lecturer, political activist, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Her story is told dramatically in the play/movie THE MIRACLE WORKER. |
Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall... all you have to do is call... and I'll be there, yes I will... you've got a friend. |
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~ CAROL KING Singer, songwriter, pianist. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
Your friend is the one who knows all about you and still likes you. |
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~ ELBERT HUBBARD American writer publisher, author and philosopher |