Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."

- Edith Wharton

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

- Cicero

"When true friends meet in adverse hour;'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.A watery way an instant seen,The darkly closing clouds between."

- Sir Walter Scott

"... no man is uselesswhile he has a friend."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."

-Benjamin Franklin -Sent in by André

The following five quotes were sent in by Handan"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

-Benjamin Franklin

" 'Stay' is a charming word in a friends vocabulary."

-Louisa Mary Alcott [1832-1888], American writer, reformist

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

-William Arthur Ward

"Friendship? Yes Please."

-Charles Dickens - Sent in by Steffi

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

- Alexander Pope

"A friend is, as it were, a second self.

- Cicero (Sent by Nigar Baimova)

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

- Albert Einstien (Sent by Brandon Merenda)

"But 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 (Sent by Shawn)

"The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."

- Hilda Brett Farr

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"In a friend you find a second self."

- Isabelle Norton

"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

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking foward to sharing time with them again."

- Lee Wilkinson

"Ah, how good it feels...the hand of an old friend"

- Mary Englebright

"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

- Francis Bacon

"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."

- Cicero

"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

Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;For, thus friends absent speak."

- John Donne

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friendUnjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."

- John Boyle O'Reilly

"Friends have all things in common."

- Plato

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

- Artistotle

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."

- Edward Everett Hale

"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."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."

- James Fenimore Cooper

"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."

- Fracis Bacon

"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."

- James Francis Byrnes

"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."

- Cicero

"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

"Do not save your loving speechesFor your friends till they are dead;Do not write them on their tombstones,Speak them rather now instead.

- Anna Cummins

Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

"When true friends meet in adverse hour;'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.A watery way an instant seen,The darkly closing clouds between."

- Sir Walter Scott

"... no man is uselesswhile he has a friend."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

- Oscar Wilde

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends."

- William Yeats

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."

- Helen Keller

"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

- Saint Jerome

"I count myselt in nothing else so happyAs in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."

- William Shakespeare

"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."

- Thomas Jefferson

Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

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

- Socrates, Greek Philosopher

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"

- Woodrow Wilson

"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

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

- Aristotle

"The bird a nest,the spider a web,man friendship."

- William Blake

"Friendship is love without his wings"

- Lord Byron

"Friendship is love with wings."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

- Cicero

Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

- William Blake, sent in by Lauren

"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.

"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

- Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."

- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet.

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist.

"Keep your friendships in repair."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (as above)

"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 (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer.

Friendship Quotes

"And I'm still here, waiting here, to catch you if you fall. I don't know why I care so much when I shouldn't care at all."

"Out of every girl I meet, no other can compete I'd ditch em all for a night with you. I know you don't believe you mean this much to me, but I promise you that you do."

"If I had one wish this is what it would be, I'd ask you to spend all your time with me, we'd be together forever.."

"I guess that it's you I want to hold on to, but you're holding onto someone else."

"Your friends are what will matter in the end."

"If only you could see the you that is a part of me, maybe you could see inside yourself."

"Should I forgive and should I forgive the hurt that's caused me all this?"

Sent in by Mac

Your my best friend forever and always we're together too much but far not enough and if you die before I do ask god if heaven's got room for two.

Sent in by Angel

Friendship Quotes

ºBest Friends Listen to what you dont sayº

- **Samantha Norman**

"People never know how special someone is until they leave, but maybe sometimes its important to leave, so they are given that chance to see how special that someone really is!"

- Sent by Ali Nitka

*Don't ever be afraid to come to me ~n~ cry* *Don't ever hesitate to look me ~n~ the eye* *Don't ever be afraid to tell me how you feel* *Remeber your my girl ~n~ we gotta keep it real*

"Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever."

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other."

-lucian de crescenzo Sent in by Jodi

"I never had better friends than the friends I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

-Stand By Me Sent in by Pollak

Since we met its been you and I, a tear for a tear baby eye for an eye and u know that my heart gonnna cry if you leave me lonely cuz u not just my friend your my homie

-Jarule...Put it on me

Put it on me if this was our world,it would be all yours babbyy

Sent by josh

"Friends are the siblings God forgot to give us."

Sent in by Hillary

"You'll always be my best friend, you know too much!"
"When it hurts to look back and your scared to look ahead you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."

"You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me~

David Lamotte

'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs~

Chuck Brodsky

"Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you!"

Sent in by-Chandru

Friendship Quotes

"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

- Saint Jerome

"I count myselt in nothing else so happyAs in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."

- William Shakespeare

"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;For, thus friends absent speak."

- John Donne

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friendUnjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."

- John Boyle O'Reilly

"Friends have all things in common."

- Plato

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

- Artistotle

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

Friendship Quotes

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

- Aristotle

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

Friendship Quotes

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends."
"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."

- Francois Mocuriac

"Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours."

- (sent by Jennifer Chen)

"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."

- "Pizza Place Sign"

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

- Mencius

"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."
"True friendship is never serene."

- Mariede Svign

"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."

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

"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."

- Marlene Dietrick

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty." - Collins English Dictionary

"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"

- Emma Stacey

"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

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."

- William Shakespeare

Friendship Quotes

"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"

- (sent by Heather Tallent)

"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."

- Guido

The following Girl Scouts Motto has been submitted by many people in varying forms, so I've just placed the three most popular versions on:
1) "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"
2) "Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."
3) "Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold"
4}"I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other."

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."

- (sent by Steve Klaka)

"Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you."

- (sent by Steve Klaka)

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

-Benjamin Disraeli

"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

Friendship Quotes

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

- Elbert Hubard

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

- John Lennon

"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."

- Bible: Ecclesiastes

"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

"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

"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."

- Logan Pearsall Smith

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."

- (sent by Dior Yamasaki)

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The love of my life is the love between friends."

- (sent by Jess)

"One's best friend is oneself."

- (sent by Jess)

Friendship Quotes

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"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

"My friends are my estate."

- Emily Dickinson

"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"

-Walter Winchell

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

- Sent by Donna Roberts

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."

- Sent by Lysha

"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

"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."

- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam

"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."

- sent by Steve

"Every person is a new door to a different world."

- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"