Funny Friendship Quote Biography
source link (google.com)To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. – Leon Uris
The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend. – Arch Ward
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. – Charles Dudley Warner
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
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. – Len Wein
Money can’t buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies. – Somers White
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. – Oscar Wilde
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. – Thomas Wilson
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. – Woodrow T. Wilson
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. – Dumas The Younger
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Brooks Adams
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. – Joseph Addison
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – St. Thomas Aquinas
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. – Pietro Aretino
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. – Aristotl
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. – Aristotle
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. – Honore De Balzac
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. – Henry Ward Beecher
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. – Ludwig Van Beethoven
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. – Arnold Bennett
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure. – Bible
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. – Randolph S. Bourne
Friedship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. – Kenneth Branagh
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe. – John Mason Brown
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – - Eustace Budgell
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. – (Frank) Gelett Burgess
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. – Samuel Butler
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. – James F. Byrnes
Friendship is Love without his wings! – Lord Byron
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. – Lord Chesterfield
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. – Chilo
A friend is, as it were, a second self. – Marcus T. Cicero
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. – Marcus T. Cicero
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods. – Esther M. Clark
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. – Charles Caleb Colton
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence. – Sheryl Condie
A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. – Frank Crane
Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend. – Grace Noll Crowell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. – Fr. Jerome Cummings
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. – Anna Cummins
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. – Simon Dach
ld friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day. – Dalai Lama
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Readers Digest
To find a friend one must close one eye — to keep him, two. – Norman Douglas
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! – Charles Alexander Eastman
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. – George Ebers
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up. – George Eliot
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. – T. S. Eliot
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. – Sarah Ellis
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. – Epicuru
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. – Euripides
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. – Dame Edna Everage
… I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy — that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them. – Douglas Fairbanks
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