Friendship Quotes, Quotations and Sayings - Page 7



A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.
Proverb

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
Colleen Wainwright

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn’t your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Randy K. Milholland

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Proverb

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

Friends have all things in common.
Plato

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

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain

Friendship
I’ve discovered a way to stay friends forever –
There’s really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!
Shel Silverstein

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

We cannot tell the exact moment a 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 that makes the heart run over.
Anonymous

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

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend’s love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
Randy K. Milholland

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Anonymous

Even though we’ve changed and we’re all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we’ll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we’re not all still friends.
Anonymous

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, jr.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller

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