"Among Life's precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare."
~ author unknown
"A friend loves at all times..." Proverbs 17:17
Real friendship is a rare and precious gift, strong, stable, yet fragile, and never to be taken for granted.
~Char
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
-Woodrow Wilson
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light."
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
~C.S. Lewis
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."
~ author unknown
"Friendship without self - interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
~ James F. Byrnes
"Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods."
~ Esther M. Clark
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity."
~ Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode:
it is rather a life."
~ David Grayson
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 forever.
~unknown
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair."
~ Samuel Johnson
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
~ Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
~ Golda Meir
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
~ Mencius
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
~ Wilson Mizner
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."
~ William Butler Yeats
"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
~ Louisa May Alcott
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
~ Amanda Bradley
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
~ Charlotte Bronte
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
~ Pearl S. Buck
"I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated."
~ Nancy Reagan
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
~ Bernard Meltzer
"A friend is someone who sings your heart's song
back to you when you have forgotten the words."
~ David Coppola, Ph.D.
