Friend Quotes

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

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

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

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

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.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

My heart is warm with the friends I make,And better friends I'll not be knowing,Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where it's going.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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 chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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

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.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Blessed, blessed is the Knower of the Lord, my True Guru, He has taught me to look upon friend and foe alike.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.