Friendship Quotes and Sayings 2

FRIENDSHIP QUOTES (2)

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. 

~Douglas Pagels

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. 

~Robert Brault

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. 

~Author Unknown

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. 

~Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. 

~Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. 

~Aristotle

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. 

~Albert Schweitzer

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. 

~Arnold H. Glasgow

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

~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. 

~Author Unknown

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it. 

~Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 

~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. 

~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. 

~Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 

~William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. 

~Pam Brown

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. 

~George Santayana

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. 

~Donna Roberts

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. 

~Samuel Johnson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. 

~Dave Tyson Gentry

You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. 

~Laurence J. Peter

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. 

~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. 

~Grace Pulpit

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. 

~D.H. Lawrence

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. 

~C.S. Lewis

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. 

~Dorothy Parker

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. 

~Virginia Woolf

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship. 

~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. 

~Author Unknown

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. 

~Robert Brault

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. 

~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. 

~Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. 

~Author Unknown

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. 

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. 

~Marlene Dietrich

She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. 

~Toni Morrison, Beloved

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. 

~Robert Brault

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. 

~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. 

~Plautus

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. 

~George MacDonald

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. 

~Author Unknown

Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. 

~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Love is like the wild-rose briar;

Friendship is like the holly-tree.

The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,

But which will bloom most constantly?

~Emily Brontë

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. 

~Robert Brault

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. 

~Robert Brault

The function of a friend is not to have a function.

~Detlef Cordes

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another.  Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. 

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. 

~Abraham Lincoln

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. 

~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. 

~John Leonard

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends stab you in the front. 

~Oscar Wilde

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. 

~Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend  (Thank you, Carolyn.)

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. 

~Epicurus

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