Know Your Friend...

A Friend, who...

(A)ccepts you as you are
(B)elieves in "you"
(C)alls you just to say "HI"
(D)oesn't give up on you
(E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
(F)orgives your mistakes
(G)ives unconditionally
(H)elps you
(I)nvites you over
(J)ust "be" with you
(K)eeps you close at heart
(L)oves you for who you are
(M)akes a difference in your life
(N)ever Judges
(O)ffer support
(P)icks you up
(Q)uiets your fears
(R)aises your spirits
(S)ays nice things about you
(T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
(U)nderstands you
(V)alues you
(W)alks beside you
(X)-plains thing you don't understand
(Y)ells when you won't listen and
(Z)aps you back to reality

by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

True Friendship Poem

True friendship isn't seen with the eyes, it is felt with the heart.
When there is trust, understanding, loyalty, and sharing.
True friendship is a rare feeling, but when it is found
It has profound impact on our well-being, strength, and character.
True friendship does not need elaborate gifts
Or spectacular events in order to be valuable or valued.
To ensure long-lasting quality and satisfaction,
True friendship only needs a few key ingredients:
Undying loyalty, unmatched understanding, unsurpassed trust,
Deep and soulful secrets, and endless sharing.
These ingredients, mixed with personality and a sense of humor,
Can make a friendship last a lifetime!
This is just a thank you, my friend, for all the wonderful and colorful
Special ingredients You've brought to my life!

- Author Unknown

Know Your Real Friend.

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.

A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears..

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.

A simple friend hates it when you call after they've gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A real friend calls you after you had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!

-- Author Unknown

What Is Friendship...???

Friendship Is . . .

. . . is you.
. . . is love.
. . . is shared.
. . . is forgiving.
. . . is understanding.
. . . is shared secrets.
. . . heals many hurts.
. . . is not judgmental.
. . . is shared laughter.
. . . is slow and steady.
. . . can be angry at times.
. . . is dependable and true.
. . . is more precious than silver or gold.
. . . is meant to be savored like fine wine.
. . . is not perfect, much like we are not perfect.
. . . does not hold grudges or demand perfection.
. . . makes all the wrong things in life, right somehow.
. . . is meant to be gulped like lemonade on a hot summer day.
. . . is always there, through times of trial, happy times and hard times.
. . . just happens, but once discovered, needs to be tended like a beautiful garden.
. . . is a road to be traveled slowly, remembering the sights and sounds.
. . . is strength when you are too weak to notice its there.
. . . is a cherished moment of mutual understanding.
. . . reaches into your heart and grabs a firm hold.
. . . is a refreshing rain on a hot day.
. . . is sunshine through the clouds.
. . . cannot be forced or induced.
. . . is relaxed and comfortable.
. . . is a shoulder to lean on.
. . . is an ear to whine to.
. . . gets better with age.
. . . is shared tears.
. . . is shared pain.
. . . is shared joy.
. . . is shared.
. . . is love.
. . . is you.

Friends Poem by Veronica Ann Cech

Good Friend Quotes - Value Your Friendship...!!!

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute.
He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

-- Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

-- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics

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

--- Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings

Real Friendship Statements !

"The best mirror is an old friend."

~ George Herbert.


"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."

~ Helen Keller.


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

~ Aristotle.


"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

~ Saint Jerome.


"I count myselt in nothing else so happyAs in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."

~ William Shakespeare.

Popular Friendship Sentences !

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends."

~ William Yeats.


"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

~ Mark Twain.


"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."

~ Cicero.


"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Beautiful Friendship Poem !

"Friendship is love with wings."

~ Unknown.


"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

~ Cicero.


"When true friends meet in adverse hour;'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.A watery way an instant seen,The darkly closing clouds between."

~ Sir Walter Scott.


"... no man is uselesswhile he has a friend."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson.


"A true friend stabs you in the front."

~ Oscar Wilde.

Good Friendship Feelings !

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

~ Mother Teresa.

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."

~ Benjamin Franklin

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

~ Aristotle.

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

~ William Blake.

"Friendship is love without his wings"

~ Lord Byron.

Important Friendship Quotes !

"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.

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."

~ William Shakespeare.

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt.

Adorable Friendship Statements !

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

~ Euripides, Greek playwrite.

"My friends are my estate."

~ Emily Dickinson.

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

~ Socrates, Greek Philosopher.

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"

~ Woodrow Wilson.

True Friendsip Messages !

"These are called the pious frauds of friendship."

~ Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754) British novelist.

"Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince."

~ Samuel Johnston, (as above).

"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."

~ Sallust (86 - 334 BC) Roman historian.

Beautiful Friendship Thoughts !

"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."

~ George Washington, (as above)

"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."

~ Samuel Johnston (1709 - 1784) British lexicographer.


"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."

~ Epicurus (341 - 270 BC) Greek philosopher.

Thoughtful Friendship Advices !

"If it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!"

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) British dramatist.


"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

~ George Washington (1732 - 1799) US Statesman.


"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, (as above).

Friendship Is A Real Jewel !

"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."

~ Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer.

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."

~ Samuel Johnston, (as above)


"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."


~ Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) French writer.

Divine Friendship Quotes !

"Keep your friendships in repair."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (as above).


"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.


"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.


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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Cheerful Friendship Sentences !

"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

~ Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.


"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

~ Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.


"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."

~ Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet.


"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist.

Interesting Friendship Statements !

" A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."

~ Arabian Proverb.

"It is better to be in chains with friends , than to be in a garden with strangers."

~ Persian Proverb -Sent in by Shawn.


"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

~ William Blake, sent in by Lauren.

Unforgetable Friendship Thoughts !

"May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."

~ Irish Blessing.

"A cheerful friend is like a sunny day spreading brightness all around."

~ John Lubcock ( English Astronomer ).

"THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF SHIPS. THERE ARE WOODEN SHIPS
,PLASTIC SHIPS, AND METAL SHIPS. BUT THE BEST AND MOST
IMPORTAINT TYPES OF SHIPS ARE FRIENDSHIPS."

~ OLD IRISH QUOTE (SENT BY -ROBERT J. BADAR JR.).

"The only unsinkable ship is FRIENDSHIP."

~ Jeff Sczpanski.

Best Friendship Feelings !

"To have a friend, be a friend."

~ sent by Julio Fung.


"The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb."

~ German Proverb


"Life without a friend is like death without a witness."

~ Spanish Proverb


"The best mirror is an old friend."

~ Unknown.