QUOTATIONS: FRIENDSHIP
Updated March 20, 2000
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved- the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." -Jack Kerouac
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." -Unknown
"Friends share all things." -Pythagoras
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle
"Friendship abates happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief." -Joseph Addison
"My friends are my estate." -Emily Dickinson
"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 much undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitles to the appellation." -George Washington
"Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality." -Robert E. Frederick
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." -Dave Tyson Gentry
"Give me a few friends who love me for who I am, or am not, and keep ever burning before my wandering steps the kindly light of hope." -Anonymous
"All men have their frailties, and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections will never find what he seeks. We love ourselves not withstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner." -Cyrus
"Hold a true friend with both hands." -Nigerian Proverb
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not true friendship divine in this?" -Henry David Thoreau
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." -Abraham Lincoln
"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and their hearts can be thrilled by them." -Henry Ward Beecher
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown of the earth, a part of me has been buried there; but their contributions to my being of happiness, strength, and understanding remain to sustain me in an altered world." -Helen Keller
"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend." -Albert Camus
"One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday." -Eeyore
"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends." -Richard Bach
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." -Agnes Repplier
"Men cannot know one another until they have eaten salt together." -Aristotle
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." -William Blake
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom know until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." -Maya Angelou
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." -Tim McGraw
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." -Maya Angelou
"Good friends are good for your health." -Irwin Sarason
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buechner
