Friendship Quotes....

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” Clifton Fediman

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” Katherine Mansfield

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t walk in front of me;  I may not follow.  Don’t walk behind me;  I may not lead.  Just walk beside me and be my friend.” Albert Camus

“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.” Anais Nin

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” Epicurus

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” Walter Winchell

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” John Leonard

“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” Mary Catherwood

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” Aristotle

“Life without a friend is like death without a witness.” Spanish Proverb

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” Elisabeth Foley

“A cheerful friend is like asunny day spreading brightness all around.” John Lubcock

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.  There is a time for silence.  A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny.  And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” Gloria Naylor

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” Arnold H. Glasgow

“It is one of the blessing of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.” Charles Kingsley

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.” C. S. Lewis

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…. not healing, not curing…. that is a friend who cares.” Henri Nouwen

“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” Abraham Lincoln

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I’m aware of a strength that emanates in the background.” Claudette Renner

“I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.” Cher

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Goethe

“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter.” Marlene Dietrich

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” Samuel Johnson

“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” Samuel Johnston

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” Henry Ford

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” George Washington

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” George Washington

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” Epicurus

“Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” Samuel Johnston

“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?” Henry David Thoreau

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” Euripides

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” Socrates

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together” Woodrow Wilson

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the true sourse of art, science, and friendship.” Albert Einstien

“Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.” Ludwig van Beethoven

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” Oscar Wilde

“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“… no man is useless while he has a friend.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” John Boyle O’Reilly

“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.” William Yeats

“Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” James Francis Byrnes

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” Artistotle

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain

“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.” Leo Buscaglia

“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.” Cicero

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust

“The best mirror is an old friend.” George Herbert

“What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” Aristotle

” A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” Arabian Proverb

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me dows not consult his calender.” Robert Brault

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” Elbert Hubbard

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” Henri Nouwen

“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.” Samuel Papys

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Mencius

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.” Plautus

“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Friendship, is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” Muhammad Ali

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I not; my shadow does that much better.” Plutarch