“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
- Charles Caleb Colton
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
- Anais Nin
“My friends are my estate.”
- Emily Dickinson
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out”
-Walter Winchell
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
- Len Wein – by Paulo Louro
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
- by Donna Roberts
“A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.”
- by Lysha
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.”
- Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies). by clovers
“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.”
- by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
“Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.”
- by Steve
“Every person is a new door to a different world.”
- from movie “Six Degrees of Seperation”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
- by John Leonard
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
- Elbert Hubard
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
- John Lennon
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.”
- Mary Catherwood
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”
- C. S. Lewis
“I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.”
- Logan Pearsall Smith
“Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.”
- ( by Dior Yamasaki)
“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”
- Abraham Lincoln, ( by Heather Myers)
“The love of my life is the love between friends.”
- ( by Jess)
“One’s best friend is oneself.”
- ( by Jess)
“A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!”
- ( by Heather Tallent)
“To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy…”
- Guido
The following Girl Scouts Motto has been submitted by many people in varying forms, so I’ve just placed the three most popular versions on:
1) “Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold”
2) “Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold.”
3) “Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold”
4}”I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other.”
“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”
- ( by Steve Klaka)
“Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you.”
- ( by Steve Klaka)
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.”
-Benjamin Disraeli
“Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I’m aware of a strength that emanates in the background.”
-Claudette Renner
“I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.”
-Cher
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
-Goethe
“Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends.”
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
- Francois Mocuriac – by spiff
“Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours.”
- ( by Jennifer Chen)
“Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.”
- “Pizza Place Sign”, ( by Rory Bristol)
The following 5 quotes were by Danielle N. Redfield – Thanks!! 
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
- Mencius
“Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.”
“True friendship is never serene.”
- Mariede Svign
“Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.”
“Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.”
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.”
- Marlene Dietrick
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, ( by Julio Fung)
“Friend – a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.”
- Collins English Dictionary
“A new friendship is like an unripened fruit – it may become either an orange or a lemon”
- Emma Stacey
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade.”
- William Shakespeare
“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
- Mother Teresa
“I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
- Aristotle
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
- Mark Twain
“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”
- Cicero
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
- George Herbert
“A world without a friend, what would it be? It would be like a world without water, something you need. Friends are like glass, once broken, they are hard to fix. Keep your friends, as you would keep your water.”
“The music may stop now and then, But the the strings will remain forever…”
- by Yuslina
“Friend derives from a word meaning “free.” A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be.”
“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.”
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
- Maragret Lee Runbeck
“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.
- Amy R Raabe
“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.”
by Collen
“Any day is sunny that’s brightened by a smile…Any friendship blossoms if it’s tended to with style.”
“The better you know someone, the less there is to say. Or maybe, there’s less that needs to be said.”
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…”
- Richard Bach
“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
-Elizabeth Foley
“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.”
“I don’t remember how we happened to meet each other. I don’t remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together…always.”
“You only meet your once in a lifetime friend… once in a lifetime.”
- Little Rascals
“A circle is round it has no end, that’s how long I want to be your friend!”
- Anonymous
“A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better!”
- Erin Westbrook
“A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.”
“One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members.”
“You just remined me of what’s really important in life, friends, best friends.”
- Fried Green Tomatoes
“Times of need are not enough to prove your friendship.”
by Kristen
“If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern…what better gift?”
- Fred Rogers
“A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.”
- Kathleen Grove
“Friends are like Peanut Butter … it sticks to the roof of your mouth .like a friend sticks to you…. and it feels as if they never go away.!”
“True friendship, unlike love, always lasts forever.”
by Chatterbox
“To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world.”
by Lisa
“A friend will be there for you when things are good…but a TRUE friend will be there for you when things are good and also when things are very bad…and just when it feels like you will never smile again…she can put a smile on your face with just with a hug!”
by Kathrine
“A real friend is not one who only entertain you, but one who cares about you, one who will be there when you cry”
by David
“Best friends are better than boyfriends.”
- by Mavis Jukes
“As I reach a time of complete uncertainty, friends are my most precious asset.”
by Josylan
“There is no distance too great between friends, for love gives wings to the heart.”
by Elizabeth E. Koehler
“Where there is love there is life.”
“A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope.”
! ” I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. . . I’d like to be the help you’ve always been glad to be; I’d like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.”
by Jenny Mcgehee
“A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you’ve been through a storm.”
by Jenna Palmer
“A friend in kindergarten is the one who sat next to you and let you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one was left.”
by Liz
“True friendship is one that lasts even though one friend’s sole has left this earth”
by Jennifer
“A reassuring presence, A LIGHT when times are dark, A hand reaching out, Is what friendship is about.”
Author Unknown – by Laure Schnackenberg
“We always thought we’d look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we’d look back on our laughter and cry.”
-Author Unkown, sumitted by Amanda
When I’m asked what one happy thought is I always say knowing that no matter how big the fight is I will always havea best friend.
- Smitten_Kitten
“Dont walk on front of me, i may not follow~ dont walk behind me i may not lead~ just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.”
“I believe in Angels, the ones that heaven sends
I believe in Angels, but i call them my best friends”
- by Micaela K
“Friendship is like a popsicle on two sticks, when the friendship breaks, so does the popsicle, making everything a mess”
- by Paul
“Even on the road to hell a flower will make you smile.”
-365Tao – by Tara
“Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend’s hand~ and hold on forever”
-Traci Brown
The following seven quotes were by Susannah Thomson
“You are you and I am I,
You do your thing and I’ll do mine,
and if in the end we meet up together,
it is beautiful.”
-Boy Meets World
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, it makes the ride worthwhile.”
-F.P. Jones
“All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us.”
-The Wonder Years
“We laughed
until we had to cry.
We gave love,
right down to our last goodbye.
We were the best
we thought we’d ever be
Just you and me,
for just a moment…
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
-Barbara DeAngelis
“My wish upon this shooting star is that your heart be happy.”
-Gilbert
“If we discovered that we had only 5 minutes left to say what we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”
-Christopher Morley
“A friend you have to buy, wont be worth what you pay for him.”
- by Maris B
“I can doubt my friends, but I can believe in our friendship.”
“IF YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND AS THEY SHOULD BE, THEY WILL BECOME ONE OF THE CROWD. IF YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND AS THEY OUGHT TO BE TREATED, THEY WILL BECOME AN INDIVIDUAL.”
“True friends, like ivy and the wall stand together and both together fall.”
The following two quotes were by Cheryl.
“Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious things.”
-Randolph S. Bourne
“With clothes the new are the best, with friends the old are the best.”
“Friendship is like thighs, they are always sticking together.”
- by Leesa and Ashley
“If you are going to gain anything in life, gain a friend, they will always be there, and that makes all the difference in the world.”
- by Steve
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart”
- by Louisa
“A real friend will tell you when you have spinach stuck in your teeth.”
- by Nadine Cooper
The following two quotes were by Louisa
“Shared sorrow is half sorrow, shared joy is double joy”
“Most people come into our lives and quickly leave. It is the special few that come in and leave a footprint in our hearts. and we are forever changed.”
“There is an exquisite melody in every heart. If we listen closely, we can hear each other’s song. A friend knows the song in your heart and responds with Beatiful harmony.”
- by soumya
The following two quotes were by Beth Miklius.
“Friends are like flowers, beautiful flowers; friends are like flowers in the garden of life.”
“True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.”
“If we were leaving in a world where to say i love you would make more sense, i would always say you i love you”
-Ozge Dilsiz
“Choose your friends carefully you never know who is on your side, and remember the truth shall prevail. ”
-LINK
“False friends aren’t always that bad because it shows you about yourself and teaches you to be strong and life goes on.”
-Josh Wojo
“Remember that every good friend was once a stranger”
- by André
“They say ‘you only regret the things you never do.’ Then why do I regret every bad thing I did to you?”
“A world without a friend, what would it be? It would be like a world without water, something you need. Friends are like glass, once broken, they are hard to fix. Keep your friends, as you would keep your water.”
“The music may stop now and then, But the the strings will remain forever…”
- by Yuslina
“Friend derives from a word meaning “free.” A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be.”
“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.”
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
- Maragret Lee Runbeck
“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.
- Amy R Raabe
“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.”
by Collen
“Any day is sunny that’s brightened by a smile…Any friendship blossoms if it’s tended to with style.”
“The better you know someone, the less there is to say. Or maybe, there’s less that needs to be said.”
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…”
- Richard Bach
“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
-Elizabeth Foley
“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.”
“I don’t remember how we happened to meet each other. I don’t remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together…always.”
“You only meet your once in a lifetime friend… once in a lifetime.”
- Little Rascals
“A circle is round it has no end, that’s how long I want to be your friend!”
- Anonymous
“A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better!”
- Erin Westbrook
“A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.”
“One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members.”
“You just remined me of what’s really important in life, friends, best friends.”
- Fried Green Tomatoes
“Times of need are not enough to prove your friendship.”
by Kristen
“If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern…what better gift?”
- Fred Rogers
“A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.”
- Kathleen Grove
“Friends are like Peanut Butter … it sticks to the roof of your mouth .like a friend sticks to you…. and it feels as if they never go away.!”
“True friendship, unlike love, always lasts forever.”
by Chatterbox
“To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world.”
by Lisa
“A friend will be there for you when things are good…but a TRUE friend will be there for you when things are good and also when things are very bad…and just when it feels like you will never smile again…she can put a smile on your face with just with a hug!”
by Kathrine
“A real friend is not one who only entertain you, but one who cares about you, one who will be there when you cry”
by David
“Best friends are better than boyfriends.”
- by Mavis Jukes
“As I reach a time of complete uncertainty, friends are my most precious asset.”
by Josylan
“There is no distance too great between friends, for love gives wings to the heart.”
by Elizabeth E. Koehler
“Where there is love there is life.”
“A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope.”
! ” I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. . . I’d like to be the help you’ve always been glad to be; I’d like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.”
by Jenny Mcgehee
“A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you’ve been through a storm.”
by Jenna Palmer
“A friend in kindergarten is the one who sat next to you and let you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one was left.”
by Liz
“True friendship is one that lasts even though one friend’s sole has left this earth”
by Jennifer
“A reassuring presence, A LIGHT when times are dark, A hand reaching out, Is what friendship is about.”
Author Unknown – by Laure Schnackenberg
“We always thought we’d look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we’d look back on our laughter and cry.”
-Author Unkown, sumitted by Amanda
When I’m asked what one happy thought is I always say knowing that no matter how big the fight is I will always havea best friend.
- Smitten_Kitten
“Dont walk on front of me, i may not follow~ dont walk behind me i may not lead~ just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.”
“I believe in Angels, the ones that heaven sends
I believe in Angels, but i call them my best friends”
- by Micaela K
“Friendship is like a popsicle on two sticks, when the friendship breaks, so does the popsicle, making everything a mess”
- by Paul
“Even on the road to hell a flower will make you smile.”
-365Tao – by Tara
“Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend’s hand~ and hold on forever”
-Traci Brown
The following seven quotes were by Susannah Thomson
“You are you and I am I,
You do your thing and I’ll do mine,
and if in the end we meet up together,
it is beautiful.”
-Boy Meets World
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, it makes the ride worthwhile.”
-F.P. Jones
“All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us.”
-The Wonder Years
“We laughed
until we had to cry.
We gave love,
right down to our last goodbye.
We were the best
we thought we’d ever be
Just you and me,
for just a moment…
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
-Barbara DeAngelis
“My wish upon this shooting star is that your heart be happy.”
-Gilbert
“If we discovered that we had only 5 minutes left to say what we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”
-Christopher Morley
“A friend you have to buy, wont be worth what you pay for him.”
- by Maris B
“I can doubt my friends, but I can believe in our friendship.”
“IF YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND AS THEY SHOULD BE, THEY WILL BECOME ONE OF THE CROWD. IF YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND AS THEY OUGHT TO BE TREATED, THEY WILL BECOME AN INDIVIDUAL.”
“True friends, like ivy and the wall stand together and both together fall.”
The following two quotes were by Cheryl.
“Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious things.”
-Randolph S. Bourne
“With clothes the new are the best, with friends the old are the best.”
“Friendship is like thighs, they are always sticking together.”
- by Leesa and Ashley
“If you are going to gain anything in life, gain a friend, they will always be there, and that makes all the difference in the world.”
- by Steve
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart”
- by Louisa
“A real friend will tell you when you have spinach stuck in your teeth.”
- by Nadine Cooper
The following two quotes were by Louisa
“Shared sorrow is half sorrow, shared joy is double joy”
“Most people come into our lives and quickly leave. It is the special few that come in and leave a footprint in our hearts. and we are forever changed.”
“There is an exquisite melody in every heart. If we listen closely, we can hear each other’s song. A friend knows the song in your heart and responds with Beatiful harmony.”
- by soumya
The following two quotes were by Beth Miklius.
“Friends are like flowers, beautiful flowers; friends are like flowers in the garden of life.”
“True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.”
“If we were leaving in a world where to say i love you would make more sense, i would always say you i love you”
-Ozge Dilsiz
“Choose your friends carefully you never know who is on your side, and remember the truth shall prevail. ”
-LINK
“False friends aren’t always that bad because it shows you about yourself and teaches you to be strong and life goes on.”
-Josh Wojo
“Remember that every good friend was once a stranger”
- by André
“They say ‘you only regret the things you never do.’ Then why do I regret every bad thing I did to you?”
