Friendship Quotes And Poems

Friendship Love Quotes

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Friendship Love Quotes

"There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet."
Anonymous

"Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence."
Pam Brown

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you."
Dale Carnegie

"You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour."
Chinese Proverb

"It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter."
Marlene Dietrich

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

"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

"God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies."
Proverb

"A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway."
Christi Mary Warner

"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself."
Frances Ward Weller

Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams

"Life withougt a friend is death without a witness."
Spanish Proverb

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend"
Robert Lewis Stevenson

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."
Henry David Thoreau

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendshipnever.
Charles Caleb Colton

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mindthe uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families."
Unknown

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
Francis Bacon

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell

"My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me."
Henry Ford

"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

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
Euripedes

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve itto that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb

Friendship Proverbs

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

So true. True friendship, they say, is priceless. Ask someone who doesn't have a single friend and you know how its like being friendless. The void, the loneliness, the inability to share can only be overcome by the oxygen of friendship. Its great joy to be in the company of friends, to share the ecstasies of life with them. Friendship day is an ideal occasion to let your friends know how precious they are and how much you treasure their friendship. Celebrate the day with your friends, have a party, tie friendship bands, send out Friendship ecards to all your friends and yes - don't forget to use these wonderful and touching quotes in your cards.

General Friendship Quotes -

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

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813)

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

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.

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

Historical Friendship Quotes -

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship Proverbs

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Books and friends should be few but good.

The best mirror is an old friend.

It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers. (Persian proverb)

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The best mirror is an old friend.

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Best Friend Friendship Quotes

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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Benjamin Franklin

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is — “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. — Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Nathaniel Emmons

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

There is in friendship something of all relations, and something above them all. It is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Fahrenheit 451

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

Minnie Maddern Fiske

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

Henry Ford

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

Edward Morgan “E. M.” Forster

When befriended, remember it: When you befriend, forget it.

Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

A false friend and a shadow stay around only while the sun shines.

Benjamin Franklin

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A race is just a race, but a friend who paces you is a friend for life.

Joseph Franko

A sudden thought strikes me,—let us swear an eternal friendship.

John Hookham Frere

It is best to live as friends with those in time with whom we would be to all eternity.

Thomas Fuller

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

If you have one true Friend, you have more than your Share comes to.

Thomas Fuller

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

“Mahatma” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

“Mahatma” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Short Poems And Friendship Quotes

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Short Poems about Friendship

To me, a seeker-friend is a rich supply of spiritual energy.
When I help my friends, I am happy.
When I serve my friends, I am fulfilled.

My friends in silence remind me that I have infinitely more significant things to do here on earth
than making complaints against my enemies.

Friendship is not the greatness of our minds.
Friendship is the goodness of our hearts.

My heart will never outgrow its need for friendship.

My true friend is he who loves me for what I inwardly am
and not for what I outwardly have.

Friendship is the flower-fragrance-bounty in the oneness-heart-garden
of two self-giving seeker-souls.

Friendship means a perfection-foretaste-glimpse of Heaven.

Friendship means two completely open heart-doors
for each other to enjoy God's Fulness on earth.