FRIENDSHIP

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
Anonymous

This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love
Anonymous

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Albert Camus

Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united forever in love.
Anonymous

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Russian Proverb

You May Be One Person To The World But You May Be The World To One Person.
Anonymous .

Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Eugene Benge

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
Amanda Grier

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.
Bob Marley

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold

May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Irish Blessing

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb

With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Proverb

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
Janina Atkins

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
Scottish Proverb

Without friends no one would choose to live.
Aristotle

The road to a friend's house is never long
Danish Proverb

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
Aristotle

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Arabian Proverb

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
Wilma Askinas

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joseph Joubert

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Russian Proverb

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arabian Proverb

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Russian Proverb

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha

if you haven't learned what friendship means then you haven't learned anything
muhamid alli

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Donald J. Adams

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.
Source Unknown

A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
William Adams

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Geoffrey F. Albert

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
St. Thomas Aquinas

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

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Joseph Joubert

The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish Proverbs

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott K. Fitzgerald

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Paul Aubuchon

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.
Robert Anson Heinlein

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
Miguel De Cervantes

For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.
Arthur S. Hardy

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.
Nicholson Baker

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
Thomas p Kempis

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge