FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

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  

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~Mencius  

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
~Thomas A. Edison  

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
~Shirley MacLaine 

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
~Joseph Roux  

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~Aristotle  

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

he most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~Henry David Thoreau  

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
~George Washington 

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
~John Leonard  

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 true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~Arnold H. Glasow  

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  

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~Dag Hammarskjold