"A reassuring presence, A LIGHT when times are dark, A hand reaching out, Is what friendship is about."
~ Sent by Laure Schnackenberg.
~ Submitted by Amanda.
"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart."
- Kathleen Grove.
"A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!"
~ Unknown.
"One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members."
~ Unknown.
"You just remined me of what's really important in life, friends, best friends."
~ Fried Green Tomatoes.
"Times of need are not enough to prove your friendship."
~ Sent by Kristen.
"How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."
~ Unknown.
"Any day is sunny that's brightened by a smile...Any friendship blossoms if it's tended to with style."
~ Unknown.
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."
~ Richard Bach.
"The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
~ Elizabeth Foley.
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
~ Maragret Lee Runbeck.
~ Sent by Collen.
" A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. "
- Fr. Jerome Cummings.
- Amy R Raabe.
"Friend derives from a word meaning "free." A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be."
~ Unknown.
~ Unknown.
"A world without a friend, what would it be? It would be like a world without water, something you need. Friends are like glass, once broken, they are hard to fix. Keep your friends, as you would keep your water."
~ Unknown.
"The music may stop now and then, But the the strings will remain forever..."
- Sent by Yuslina.
"Friends are angels following you through life"
- Sent by Melissa.
"Friends are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you."
- Sent by Sharon.
"You cannot say you've lost a friend. If a friendship is capable of ending, it is because it never existed."
~ Sent by Mayza Blanco Martinez.
"No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each other's worth."
- Unknown
"Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times"
- Sent by Kate
Keep your eyes upon me, keep me in your sight,
Help me don the crooked road, lead me to the light.
The road I'm on is dark, I'm not sure if I know the way,
Yet with you right beside me, I'm certain I won't stray.
Protect me from the world, I know we'll make it through,
Give me all the strength I need..... Let me lean on you."
- Megan Stroup (Sent by Lauren).
"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me.
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant,
Old friend of mine, to me along the way."
- Edgar A. Guest (sent by Rena).
"A friend loves you, makes you feel alright, troubles are not troubles when you talk, listen and accept you as you are, because you will feel the same and love the same......."
- Sent by Mike.
"A faithful friend is a strong defence and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."
- sent by Cris.
"Friends are those who nurish the spirit."
- sent by Cris.
"Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, but somewhere in the middle we've become best of friends."
"When we are grown, we'll smile and say we had no cares in childhood days, but we'll be wrong. 'It will not be true, I've this much care... I care for you."
"How do you know you've found your best friend?
When you are ready to talk to them about anything, even though they know everything about you already."
~ Unknown.
~ Unknown.
FEELING is a PAINTING – Never spoil it
FACE is a BOOK – Try to read it.
And FRIENDSHIP is MIRROR – Never break it.
~ Unknown.
"A true friend is the one who knows more about you than yourself and still loves you"
- Sent by Suzie.
" A friend is someone who sticks (hangs) to you at all times, and a friend is someone who you trust...."
- sent by Winnie Chau.
"Friendship is the golden ribbon that ties the world together."
- Sent by Kristina Kentigian.
- Sent by Ralph Rusconi.
"If you have more than one friend, you have more than your share!"
- Sent by Sunpreet Singh.
"A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life."
- Sent by Jennifer L.
"Friendship is a special kind of love."
"The secret to friendship is being a good listener."
"A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets."
"Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless."
"Time isn't what makes a friendship last...It's love and devotion that keeps the tie between souls."
~ Sent by Christina.
"The best antiques are old friends."
~ Unknown.
"We are all angels with only one wing...we can fly only embracing each other."
~ Unknown.
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"
~ Unknown.
"A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget..."
- Sent by Joanne.
"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
- Anoymous (sent by Deanne Pigdon).
"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams.
"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins.
"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
- Alexander Pope.
"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"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.
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
- Francis Bacon.
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh.
"True friendship is never serene."
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner.
- Thomas Jefferson.
"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak."
- John Donne.
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
- Thomas Jefferson.
"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
~ William Shakespeare
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain.
"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.
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt.
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (sent by Julio Fung)
"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrick
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
- "Pizza Place Sign", (sent by Rory Bristol)
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."
"True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign
"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."
~ Unknown
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
~ Unknown
"Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways and yours."
- (sent by Jennifer Chen).
- Francois Mocuriac - Sent in by spiff.
The following Girl Scouts Motto has been submitted by many people in varying forms, so I've just placed the three most popular versions on:
1) "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"
2) "Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."
3) "Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold"
4)"I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other."
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- (sent by Dior Yamasaki).
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers).
"The love of my life is the love between friends."
- (sent by Jess).
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes.
- Mary Catherwood.
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes).
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard.
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon.
"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 (also attributed to Maimonidies). Sent by clovers.
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes).
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell.
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro.
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- sent by Steve
"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 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
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
"Friendship needs no words..."
-- Dag Hammarskjold.
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha.
"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871).
There is a big difference between friendship and a rose... Roses last only a while ... but friendship is for ever.
Unknown
There are many stars but the moon is you,
There are many friends but the best is you,
To forget me that’s up to you,
To forget you I will never ever do.
~ Unknown.
