Friendship

          Friendship Quotes

                

•      "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." 
• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
• "My friends are my estate."
• "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
• "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out" 
• "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." 
• "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." 
• "A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." 
• "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." 
• "A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
• "Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
• "Every person is a new door to a different world."
  - from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"
• "It takes a long time to grow an old friend." 
• Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
• "Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." 
• "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival." 
• "I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel." 
• "Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life." 
• "The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
  - Abraham Lincoln,
• "The love of my life is the love between friends."
• "One's best friend is oneself."
• "To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
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•  "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but,   scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." 
• "No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence." 
• "It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
  A happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
• "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
• "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
• "One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." 
• "Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
• "There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart." 
• "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
• "True friendship is never serene." 
• "When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
• "Friends are born, not made."
• "This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
• "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose." 
• "There is no hope of joy except in human relations." 
• "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
• "Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
• "The most I can do for my friend is simply to 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 friendship divine in this?"
• "Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
• "Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
• "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.
• "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"
• "A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget..." 
• "Material things can't make the soul whole. The only the love, trust, and loyalty of friends can do that." 
• "Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together" 
• " A friend is someone who sticks (hangs) to you at all times, and a friend is someone who you trust...."