Friendship Quotes

Author. Pakar Bisnis    On. Kamis, Maret 03, 2011   

Friendship poems Quotes

Friendship Quotes

Friendship is one of the great aspects of life. When we have them, fantastic. Here is a group of great friendship quotes by famous persons throughout history. You might want to also check out funny friendship quotes

Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush...afraid that somebody might take you away from me.
Anonymous

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

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

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
Swedish proverb

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer

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

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech. Proverb
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One of life’s greatest treasures is true Friendship. Friends are there for you through both good times and bad. A good way to describe such relationships is through friendship quotes. Friendship quotes can be cute, funny, or deep and sincere. For those who are really important in your life, there are even best friend quotes. These friend quotations are a way to celebrate your close relationships with the people in your life. If you want to honor those that you call friends, there are some great friendship quotations that you can use.

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

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

"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia." ~ Dame Edna Everage

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." ~ Confucius

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother." ~ Homer

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ~ Henri Nouwen

"I'll be there for you
When the rain starts to pour
I'll be there for you
Like I've been there before
I'll be there for you
'Cuz you're there for me too..."
~ The Rembrandts

"You can make more friends in two minutes by being interested
in them than you can in two weeks by trying to get them interested in you." ~ Dale Carnegie

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their families, but to a solitary man and an exile friends are everything." ~ Warren G. Harding

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them but you know they are always there." ~ Author Unknown

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

"Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends."
~ The Beatles

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friends come and go but enemies can accumulate." ~ Author Unknown

"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

"Friendship involves man things but, above all the power of going
outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another." ~ Thomas Huxley

"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends." ~ Sir Francis Bacon

"Friendship is like money. It is easier made than kept." ~ Samuel Butler

"Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy." ~ Spike Milligan

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

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends." ~ Truman Capote

"You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
If you've got troubles, I've got 'em too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and can see it through
Cause you've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me"
~ Randy Newman

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you." ~ Elbert Hubard

"I have always said that in politics your enemies can’t hurt you but your friends can kill you." ~ Ann Richards

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

"What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." ~ Frank Crane

"I got a lotta best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know." ~ Archie Bunker
"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

"Where there are friends, there is wealth." ~ Titus Maccius Plautus

"The warmth of a friend's presence brings joy to our hearts, sunlight to our souls, and pleasure to all of life." ~ Author Unknown

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

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." ~ Thomas A. Edison

"A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last."
~ Eulogy for Ronnie Van Zant, written by Charlie Daniels

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else." ~ Len Wein

"There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living." ~ Don Marquis

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." ~ George Washington

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

"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends—they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!" ~ Warren G. Harding

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

"Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust." ~ George MacDonald

"Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding." ~ Mary Lou Retton

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"A friend is a present you give yourself." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value." ~ Benjamin Johnson

"When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we see
No, I won’t be afraid
Oh, I won’t be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me."
~ Ben E. King

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't bore your friends with your troubles. Tell your enemies, who will be delighted to hear about them." ~ Author Unknown

"I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of their lives with each other. See men once we become friends with another man we may never say another word to him, unless there's valuable information that needs to be exchanged. Things like "Hey Jim, your shirt's on fire." ~ Jeff Foxworthy

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is it made by the
friends whom we choose." ~ Author Unknown

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." ~ The Dalai Lama

"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
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer

"One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim." ~ George Carlin

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." ~ Silican proverb.

"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.’ " ~ Author Unknown

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