Garden of Friendship Quotations

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2008-03-16T07:16:00.000-07:00

Carefully selected from thousands of thought provoking, inspirational, philosophical, moving, humorous and loved quotations, lines, passages, excerpts, thoughts, etc, on the magic of friendship, to be shared with all who wishes to learn from the experience of others.

Russell, Bertrand

2007-10-10T23:17:00.000-07:00

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Disraeli, Benjamin

2007-10-10T23:16:00.000-07:00

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Camus, Albert

2007-10-10T23:15:00.000-07:00

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Stroup, Megan

2007-08-05T20:05:00.000-07:00

Keep your eyes upon me, keep me in your sight,

Help me on 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.

Crosby, Bing

2007-08-05T20:00:00.000-07:00

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

Centivre, Susannah

2007-08-02T23:11:00.000-07:00

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

Saint James, Susan

2007-04-20T05:58:00.001-07:00

Friendship is like puttin on panty hose. You hate to get one foot in and then the other, and wiggle around and tug until you get it right, and then pretty soon you say, I love these panty hose-they fit!

Socrates

2007-04-20T05:55:00.000-07:00

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

Friendship is .....

2007-04-19T04:26:00.000-07:00

Friendship is a candle whose flame glows brighter when the hour is darker.

Friendship is a language that the blind can see and the deaf can hear

Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.

A reassuring presence,

A light when times are dark,

A hand reaching out,

Is what friendship is about.

-Courtesy of Anonymous-

Moore, Sir Thomas

2007-04-19T04:25:00.000-07:00

The thread of our life would be dark, heaven knows, if it were not with friendship and love intertwined.

Baldwin, Stanley

2007-04-19T04:23:00.000-07:00

I have the best friends any man ever had. If I have any enemies - perhaps to have enemies is as great an honour to me as the friendships of these men.

Blake, William

2007-04-17T01:11:00.000-07:00

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

Johnson, Samuel

2007-04-17T01:05:00.000-07:00

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.

Southey, Robert

2007-04-17T01:02:00.000-07:00

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

Addison, Joseph

2007-04-14T10:51:00.001-07:00

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2007-04-14T10:48:00.000-07:00

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

Mauriac, Francois

2007-04-13T19:44:00.000-07:00

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Poem

2007-04-13T19:41:00.000-07:00

Friendships come and go,

Like waves upon the sand,

Like day and night,

Like birds inflight,

Like snowflakes when they land,

But you and I are something else,

Our friendship's here to stay,

Like weeds and rocks and old dirty socks,

It never goes away!
- Anonymous

Aretino, Pietro

2007-04-11T21:56:00.000-07:00

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Brown, Pam

2007-04-11T21:49:00.000-07:00

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion - the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

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.

Reda, Fatma

2007-04-11T07:00:00.001-07:00

Peace is achieved one person at a time, through a series of friendships.

Gracian, Baltasar

2007-04-11T06:59:00.000-07:00

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. 'Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

True Friendship Quotes

2007-04-11T02:35:00.000-07:00

What is true friendship?

True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides it's evils; strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island.To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Beautiful Friendship Quotes

2007-04-11T02:27:00.000-07:00

Thank goodness these beautiful words are not as anonymous as their authors or else we won't get to read about them anywhere!

We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendshipt is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last one drop that makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is at last one drop that makes the heart run over.

Any day is sunny that's brightened by a smile,

Any friendship blossoms if it's tended to with style...

Friendships come and go, like waves upon the sand, like day and night, like birds inflight, like snowflakes when they land, but you and I are something else, our friendship's here to stay, like weeds and rocks and old dirty socks, it never goes away!

Love Friendship Quotes

2007-04-11T02:22:00.000-07:00

Some more lovely thoughts from 'Anonymous':

Friendship is a special kind of love.

Pray the hinges of friendship never rust and the wings of love never lose a feather.

Cute Friendship Quotes

2007-04-10T13:06:00.000-07:00

Ships on the ocean,
Ships on the sea,
But the best ship is the friendship,
Between you and me.

There are big ships and small ships but there are no ships like friendships.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

Meaningful Friendship Quotes

2007-04-10T13:00:00.000-07:00

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.

True friendship, unlike love, always lasts forever.

Lindbergh, Anne

2007-04-10T03:59:00.000-07:00

Men kick friendship around like a football and it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it falls to pieces.

Nin, Anais

2007-04-10T03:58:00.000-07:00

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Raabe, Amy R

2007-04-09T05:28:00.000-07:00

Scatter seeds of kindness,
Everywhere you go;
Scatter bits of courtesy,
Watch them grow and grow;
Gather buds of friendship,
Keep them till full-blown;
You will find more happiness,
Than you have ever known.

Pope, Alexander

2007-04-09T05:27:00.000-07:00

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Einstein, Albert

2007-04-08T16:51:00.000-07:00

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, true source of art, science, and friendship.

McGinnis, Alan Loy

2007-04-08T16:48:00.002-07:00

The best friendships have all weathered misunderstandings and trying times. One of the secrets of a good relationship is the ability to accept the storms.

Bonnard, Abel

2007-04-08T16:48:00.001-07:00

In love one has need of being believed; in friendship of being undersood.

Lincoln, Abraham

2007-04-08T16:41:00.000-07:00

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.