Best Friendship Day Quotes
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
Elbert Hubard
"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."
Walter Winchell
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
Unknown
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
Unknown
"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."
Unknown
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
Unknown
"Every person is a new door to a different world." from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" "It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
John Leonard
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
John Lennon
"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
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
"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
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
Unknown
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is like a perennial river which flows forever. It may change it's path but will never ever dry up.
Pinaki Prasad Mohanty
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
Bernard Meltzer.
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
Cindy Lew
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
Jewish Saying
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
Apocrypha
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
Anonymous
"Friendship needs no words..."
Dag Hammarskjold.
"Friends are the sunshine of life."
John Hay (1871)
"The best mirror is an old friend."
George Herbert
Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
Samuel Paterson
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
Swedish proverb
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Anonymous
Count your age with friends but not with years
Anonymous
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
Pietro Aretino (1537)
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
James Boswell (1763)
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
Lord Byron (1806)
"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
Cicero (44 B.C.)
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
Eustace Budgell (1711)
"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
Euripides (408 B.C.)
"A good friend is my nearest relation."
Thomas Fuller (1732)
"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"Your friend is your needs answered."
Kahil Gibran
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
Kahil Gibran.
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
Kahil Gibran
"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
Homer (9th century B.C.)
"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 kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
Samuel Johnson
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
La Rochefoucauld (1665)
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
La Rochefoucauld (1665)
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
Bernard Meltzer
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
Charles Peguy
"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
William Penn
"No man is useless while he has a friend."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"A friend is a present you give yourself."
Robert Louis Stevenson
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
Proverbs 24:26
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose."
Tehyi Hsieh
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
Len Wein
"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
Woodrow Wilson
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.
Mary Dixon Thayer
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.
Anonymous
It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Samuel Paterson
Good friends are good for your health.
Irwin Sarason
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
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
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech. Proverb
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority overothers, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Thomas Wilson
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
Baltasar Gracian (1647)
