Quotations about Friendship

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. --George Eliot

  • A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts who you've become, and still gently invites you to grow.

  • Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. --Plautus

  • It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. --Marlene Deitrich

  • A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. --Barbara Burrow

  • We are each of us angels with only one wing--to fly we need to embrace each other. --Cassandra Reed

  • True friendship is like a star. You don't see its light in the brightness of prosperity, but in the darkness of adversity.

  • A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. --Robert Edwards

  • Real friendship is feeling completely natural with another, shedding all pretense and all sham, just being yourself.

  • A true friend is here today . . . and here tomorow.

  • Friendship - the loving acceptance of another's uniqueness.

  • Everything is nicer when shared with a friend!

    A special blend of you and me!

  • Old shoes and old friends are best for relaxing.

  • A good friend sticks to you like honey.

  • The discovery of friendship is well worth the search.

  • A true friendship is one in which everything can be told, and nothing will be judged.

  • A friend is, as it were, a second self. --Cicero

  • But when two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze. --I Ching

    A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.

  • A friend loves at all times.

  • A friendship grows when you plant a seed of kindness.

  • A good friend is a precious gift.

  • A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.

  • A good friend is like an oasis in the desert. --Old Chinese Proverb

  • A real friend is one who overlooks your broken down gate, and admires the flowers in your garden!

  • A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  • A true friend can hear a tear drop.

  • A true friend is a work of heart.

  • A true friend is someone who knows the real you and loves you anyway.

  • A true friend is someone you can sit with, not say a word, and feel like you had the best conversation in the world.

  • Anyone can stand by you when you're right, but a true friend will stick by you, even when you are wrong.

  • As sunshine turns a flower's head toward heaven, so your friendship lifts my spirits.

  • A good friend sees the first tear, catches the second and stops the third.

  • A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks beside you in the shadows.

  • When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell her so.

  • You, my friend, are part of all my best memories!

  • Of all life has to offer, of all that's great and true, that which means the most to me, is being friends with you.

  • There's little else that God can send that means as much as you, my friend.

  • Ever since we first met, you've had a special place in my heart, and with each passing day, I value our friendship even more.

  • Friendship is celebrating the good times, struggling through the bad times, and being there for all time.

  • Friends bring out the beautiful things in each other that no one else looks hard enough to find.

  • Friendship is God's special way of loving us through someone else.

  • God reaches out to us through the loving heart of a friend.

  • Life is easier with good coffee and a true friend.

  • A true friend always stabs you in the front.  --Oscar Wilde

  • Your smile is sunshine, your laughter is contagious, your friendship is priceless!

  • Water your friendship with acceptance and it will only grow.

  • Being with you is one of my favorite things to do.

  • Moments spent with a friend are the kind we wish would never end.

  • A reassuring presence, a light when times are dark, a hand reaching out, is what friendship is about.

  • A new friend is valuable, and old friend is priceless.

  • I traveled to the rainbow's end, and found not gold, but you, my friend.

  • One of the greatest treasures life ever sends, is the special feeling between the hearts of friends.

  • The world is a better place because you're in it!

  • When riding through the tide of time and thinking of the past,
    remember that you have a friend who will forever last.

  • Friendship: a close personal relationship between two individuals who share the pain of their hardships, details of their courtships, and the last of their potato chips!

  • Blessings are not counted in gold or dividends, but by the love we share with family and friends.

  • Blessings come in many ways, the nicest come as friends.

  • Boyfriends are the ones who break our hearts. Best friends are the ones who pick up the pieces.

  • Count your life by smiles, not tears.
    Count your age by friends, not years.

  • Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
    Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
    Walk beside me and be my friend.
    --Albert Camus

  • Every good friend once was a stranger.

  • Everyone hears what you say.
    Friends listen to what you say.
    Best friends listen to what you don't say.

  • Friends are flowers that never fade.

  • Friends are gifts that heaven sends.

  • Friends are God's life preservers.

  • Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

  • Friends are hugs for hearts.

  • Friends are like siblings that God forgot to give us.

  • Friends are like stars; you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.

  • Friends are made in wine and proved in tears.

  • Friends are patches of love in a sunshine quilt.

  • Friends are priceless.

  • Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

  • Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.

  • Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

  • Friends are the family we find along the way.

  • Friends forever, right from the start, caring and sharing, from the heart.
  • Friends forever, guys whenever!

  • Friends gather here.

  • Friends give their best and the best comes back to them.

  • Friends like flowers give pleasure by being there.

  • Friends make life a little sweeter.

  • Friends make life worth living!

  • Friends make memories. The heart preserves them.

  • Friends make the best collectibles.

  • Friends share the joy and divide the sorrow.

  • Friends today are like melons; We must try fifty before we can find a good one.

  • Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. --Alexandre Dumas

  • Friendship has no name but Love.

  • Friendship is a knot that angel hands have tied.

  • Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  • Friendship is a work of love.

  • Friendship is one mind in two bodies. --Mencius

  • Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of the world.

  • Friendship requires compromise without feeling compromised.

  • Friendships form among people who strengthen one another. --Franklin Owen

  • Friendship is a sheltering tree.

  • Gather friends like flowers.

  • Good friends are angels on earth.

  • Good friends are good for your health.

  • Good friends are never forgotten, they live within your heart.

  • Happy is the heart that holds a friend.

  • Heart to heart we'll always be,
    Best of friends, you and me.

  • Heart strings are the bows that tie the gift of friendship.

  • Hold a true friend with both of your hands. --Nigerian Proverb

  • I am always at your side.

  • If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

  • If I had a flower every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

  • If friends were flowers, I'd pick you.

  • If friends are the flowers in the garden of life, you are an entire bouquet!

  • 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

  • If you want a friend; be a friend.

  • In the cookies of life; friends are the chocolate chips.

  • In this world of ordinary people, I'm glad that I've got you.

  • It is one of the blessings of an old friend that you can afford to be stupid with them. --Emerson

  • Life is a patchwork of friends.

  • Love is blind, but friendship closes its eye.

  • Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

  • Love may come and then go, but true friends are the greatest love you could ever hold.

  • Lovers may reach for your hands, then eventually loosen their grip. Friends reach for your heart, but never let go.

  • Many people will walk in and out of your life, But only true friends leave footprints in your heart. --Eleanor Roosevelt

  • My friends are little lamps to me; Their radiance warms and cheers my way. --Elizabeth Whittemore

  • Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that!

  • New friends are silver, but old are gold!

  • No friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

  • Nurture friendships.

  • Of all the gems on this earth, friends are the most precious!

  • Of course there is such things as angels. Only sometimes they don't have wings, and we call them friends!

  • Pick your friends - but not to pieces.

  • Real friends are those who, when you make a fool of yourself, don't think you've done a permanent job.

  • Seeds of friendship are plated with love.

  • Seeds of friendship bring flowers of joy.

  • Sow the seeds of kindness, and reap a bounty of friends.

  • Friends become our chosen family.

  • "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. --Louisa May Alcott

  • Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

  • The best antiques are old friends.

  • The harmony between friends is sweeter than any choir.

  • The only thing better than a good friend, is a good friend with a bag of M & M's!

  • The ornaments of the house are the friends that frequent it.

  • The touch of a good friend can be healing.

  • The truth is, friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

  • There's enough warmth in a friend's hug to warm up the coldest day!

  • Time may pass and we may part,
    but true friends stay close at heart!

  • To be a friend, it helps to bend.

  • To the house of a friend, the road is never long.

  • True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare.

  • True friends live in our hearts forever.

  • True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. --Charles Caleb Colton

  • We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

  • We'll be friends till we're BLUE in the hair!

  • When friends meet hearts warm.

  • When I count my blessings, I always think of you.

  • When I count my blessings...I count you twice.

  • You and me....buds forever!

  • You're my cup of tea. May your days be steeped with joy and warmed with love.

  • On a rainy day, you're my rainbow!

  • Friends are never far apart - in the heart.

  • A friend is a person who knows your sensitive spots but will never poke you there.

  • A friend is a person who listens attentively while you say nothing.

  • A friend is both a treasure and a comfort.

  • A friend is one who helps you bridge the gaps between loneliness and fellowship, frustration and confidence, despair and hope, setbacks and success.

  • A friend is someone who does things that count, but never stops to count them.

  • A friend is someone who is really glad when you succeed.

  • A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg...Even though you're slightly cracked.

  • A friend is someone who's smile helps when the roads are rough and long.

  • A friend is someone you can do nothing with - and really enjoy it.

  • A friend is someone you can trade secrets with and never worry.

  • A friend is that one word "hello" over the phone that can make you feel better than 10 minutes of conversation with anyone else.

  • A friend is the one who comes in when the rest of the world has gone out.

  • A friend is the one who is already there doing it when every one else is saying, "Is there anything I can do?"

  • A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

  • A good friend is an umbrella for the heart.

  • A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

  • A good friend will sharpen your character, draw your soul into the light and challenge your heart to love in a greater way.

  • A true friendship is a treasure that can never be lost. I'm so glad we found each other!

  • Acquaintances may pass, but friendships endure, And you've been enduring me for some time now!

  • A true friend tells you about the toilet paper on your shoe.

  • Anyone can give advice, but a real friend will lend a  helping hand.

  • Anyone can tell you it won't hurt tomorrow, but I'm here to listen while it hurts today.

  • Blessings come in many ways. The nicest come as friends.

  • Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits!

  • Sometimes a library of words can't say what a hug from a friend can.

  • Thank you for being you!

  • Thank you for opening so many doors then seeing me through them!

  • We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

  • When you're too busy for friends; you're TOO busy!

  • May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends!

  • 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

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

  • We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. --Thomas Fuller

  • Life's hard journey can be endured if we travel hand in hand.

  • Time endears but cannot fade the memories that friends have made.

  • Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

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