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Friendship Quotes and Sayings (4)
Quotes about Friendship

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

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Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

 

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

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

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
- Winnie the Pooh

I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I have to really like you to share my food with you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo

A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

We listen. We listen. We move.
We sit. It rains. The sun comes out.
(there stands a friend)
We listen. We laugh. We share.
We sit. We dance. It rains.
There stands a friend.
We listen. We share. We sit. We dance.
The sun comes up.
There. I stand, a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort

A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield

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