A friend in need is a friend indeed.
--Latin Proverb
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an oppourtunity
Kahlil Gibran
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
True friendship is like sound health;
The value of it is seldom known,
Until it be lost.
It is not so much our friends'
help that helps us
as the confident knowledge
that they will help us.
Friendship is the only cement
That will ever hold the world together.
--Woodrow Wilson
Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther Jr
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
Friendships of't would longer last,
And quarrels be prevented,
If angry words were let go past;
Forgiven not resented
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare
and beautiful things of life
--James F Byrnes
Give me one, just one, who meets
The need of all my varying moods.
The greatest good you can do for another;
is not to share your riches;
but to reveal to him his own.
The only way to have a friend;
is to be one.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
advances through life,
he will soon find himself left alone;
one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
--Samuel Johnson
Am I destroying my enemies,
when I make friends of them?
--Abraham Lincoln
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
--Golda Meir
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
--Mencius
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
--Wilson Mizner
Think where man's glory most begins and ends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,
make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living.
--Amanda Bradley
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
--Charlotte Bronte
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away,
if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts,
and finds no other inspiration.
--Pearl S. Buck
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship,
as you nourish your soul.
I am still very much a part of my friends ' lives;
and they are very much a part of my life.
Anyone, who does not have this source of strength,
and comfort,
can lose perspective and become isolated.
Friendship with oneself is all important,
because without it'
one cannot be friends,
with anyone else in the world.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good
egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
--Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who sings your heart's songback to you,
when you have forgotten the words.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance
They awaken us to new understanding,
with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never the same.
Sometime 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
You can make more friends in two months,
by becoming interested in other people;
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Friendship is like a bank account;
you cannot continue to draw on it,
without making a deposit.
When you ask Mother Nature for a gift,
Be thankful if she sends,
Not diamonds, pearls, or riches,
but love of real true friends.
Helen Steiner Rice
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends
will leave footprints in your heart.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Two may talk togethr
under the same roof for many years,
yet never really meet,
and it is the best ending.
A friend is one who knows us
but loves us anyway.
A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
The friend who holds your hand;
and says the wrong thing;
is made of dearer stuff than one who stays away.
Probably no man ever had a friend;
that he did not dislike a little.
There is one friend in the life of each of us;
who seems not a separate person,
however dear and beloved,
but an expansion, an interpretation,
of ones's self,
the very meaning of one's soul.
I value the friend,
who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend,
who for me does not consult his calendar.
'Tis a great confidence in a friend,
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
--Benjamin Franklin
The best rule of friendship;
is to keep your heart;
a little softer than your head.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends,
you're safe in doing it.
But if you take the slightest pleasure in it,
that's the time to hold your tongue.
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Friends are relatives you choose for yourself.
Many a person has held close,
throughout their entire lives,
two friends;
that always remained strange;
to one another,
because one of them attracted by virtue
of similarity,
the other by difference.
It is one of the blessings of old friends,
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing a mask,
that we are aware of,
we have a special face;
for each friend.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ah, how good it feels!
The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
