Great Friendship Quotes - Page 2

• Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Friendship, Inspiration

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• 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.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• 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.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Success, Inspirational Love

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Friendship, Letting Go, Art

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

  Donna Roberts

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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

  Aristotle

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

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• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.103

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Francois Mauriac

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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

  Len Wein

  Friendship, Best Friend, Patience

  "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

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• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

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• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

  Joe Cocker

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Real Friends, Dating

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1904). “The professor at the breakfast-table”

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• When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Real Friends, Community, Live For Others

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

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Confidence

  George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94

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