Friendship Quotes

[Family Ties Forever!]

I made a thread like this four years ago. I thought it might be nice to start it back up, with a few new quotes added.

"Friendships sometimes intertwine so that the lines between chum and kin are so blurred that children from one friend call the other friend "Aunt" or "Uncle" without ever a thought that this arrangement might be unusual. This, for me, is a hint of heaven" Author Unknown

"The best blessing of life, is a caring best friend." Author Unknown

"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend." William E. Rothschild

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

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart. "Author Unknown"

"Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be." Author: Gary Harrington

"Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels." Author: Joan Walsh Anglund (b. 1926), American children's author, illustrator

"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover." Author: Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65), [The Younger] Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, tutor

"I get by with a little help from my friends." Author: John Lennon

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

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

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." Author: Francois Mocuria

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

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

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." Author: Barbara DeAngelis

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

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." Author: Helen Keller

"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again." Author: Lee Wilkinson

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value." Author: Ben Jonson

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend." Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." Author: Samuel Johnston

"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." Author: La Rochefoucauld

"A friend is a gift you give yourself." Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

"The best mirror is an old friend." Author: George Herbert

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." Author: Epicurus

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud." Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist

"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet, critic

"No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you." Author: Steve Tesich

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." Author: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British author

"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." Author: Anais Nin

"My friends are my estate." Author: Emily Dickinson

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." Author: C.S. Lewis

"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. Charlotte in “Charlotte’s Web” Author: E.B. White

[Doodyville10019]

Once upon a time on Howdy Doody, Dilly Dally said:

"No matter how long it will take, the greatest thing you can make...is a friend".