Quotes on Friendship

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please 
continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care 
in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
 - Randolph S. Bourne

What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with 
whom you dare to be yourself.
 - Frank Crane

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like 
the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important 
thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a 
meaningful day.  
 - Dalai Lama

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly 
not born until they arrive.
 - Anais Nin

I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people 
are just idiots. I've learned. . . that we don't have to change 
friends if we understand that friends change. I've learned
that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you 
every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
 - Unknown

The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. 
The ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time 
where nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every 
road led home.
 - The Wonder Years

At home one relies on parents; away from home one relies 
on friends. 
 - Chinese Proverb

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. 
 - Yassir Arafat

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with 
friends and family.
 - Barbara Bush

Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick 
together and never really say Goodbye
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say 
disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into 
relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy 
become.
 - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.
 - Sicilian Proverb

Interiorly, most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. 
 - Lord Chesterfeild

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
 - Thucydides

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
 - Apocrypha

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed 
it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are 
young, friends are like everything else a matter of course. 
In the old days we know what it means to have them.
 - Edvard Grieg

Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, 
it may soon run itself out of breath.
 - Fuller

The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen 
plainest when all around is dark.
 - Crowell

Friendship is a treasure that always help us overcome any kind
of difficulty, Friendship is a comfort for, somehow  which 
always understand worries and emotions, Friendship is a 
blessing because it teaches the way to live.
 - Unknown

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really 
interested in other people than you can in two years by trying 
to get people interested in you.
 - Ann Landers

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg 
even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
 - Erich Segal

True Friendship never dies
A true friend is there always
Through good times and bad
Through sorrow and grief
A true friend will never walk away
They are here to stay 
They are heaven sent from above
God's Special Angels full of love
And such Grace, You will know
Them from the smiles upon their face.
Sent to you from the Lord God above!
 - Karen Sue Magee

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine 
of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the 
greater part of life is sunshine.
 - Thomas Jefferson

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're 
very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them 
everywhere.
      - Zig Ziglar

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets 
you have total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel. 
Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is 
fine with them. That's what real love amounts to — letting a 
person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you 
pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending 
— performing. You get to love your pretense. It's true, we're 
locked in an image, an act — and the sad thing is, people get 
so used to their image — they grow attached to their masks. They 
love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. 
And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it — they feel 
like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.
 - Jim Morrison

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a 
bunch of bastards. 
 - R. A. Dickson

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe 
with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure 
words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain 
together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, 
keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of 
kindness, blow the rest away.
        - George Elliot

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your 
courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a 
noble image of yourself.
 - George Bernard Shaw

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying 
my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.  
 - E. M. Forster

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must 
love friends for their sake rather than for our own. 
 - Bronte Charlotte

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild 
beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend 
will wound your mind. 
 - Buddha

Never injure a friend, even in jest.     
 - Marcus Tullius Cicero

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity 
not one in twenty.    
 - English Proverb

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend 
until he is unhappy.     
 - Thomas Fuller

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.     
 - William Blake

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies 
your right to grow.    
 - Alice Walker

...as we bend with the wind, and change with the times... 
We will always have our friendship.
 - Unknown

You can bank on any friendship where interest is paid.
 - Gordon Preiser

Volunteers are caring friends
 - Don Williams

To betray a friend is worse than to be betrayed by one. 
 - Unknown

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a 
slow-ripening fruit.
 - Aristotle