Friendship
Created | Updated Apr 1, 2002
I am trying to compile a list of quotes and sayings on the subject of friendship. If you have any to contribute or could help me by telling me who said/wrote various quotes (as I would hate for someone to go unrecognised for such amazing comments) it would be gladly welcomed.
Dolphin Girl
"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us up when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly"
"Friends are angels sent down to earth to make good days and help us find our way"
"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails" 'Pioneer Girls Leader's Handbook'
"With a friend at your side no road seems to long" Japanese Proverb
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief" Joseph Addison
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human" George Santayana
"May friendship, like wine, improve as time advances. And may we always have old wine, old friends and young cares"
"How many of us today can actually strip our insides bare and say to somebody, 'Look, I really need you!' We can say, 'I love you!' twenty-seven times a day but it's not like saying, 'Look, here I am, vomit and all, sick and frightened. Recognise my need and my humanity." Rod Steiger
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"
"No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person" Paul Tournier
"Hold a true friend with both your hands" Nigerian Proverb
"Knowing you are somewhere - near or far - means I'm never totally alone" Marian C. Garretty
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends" J.M.Barrie
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts" Abel Bonnard
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings" Henry David Thoreau
"True friends are those seeking solitude together" Abel Bonnard
"A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality" William Dean Howells
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable" David Tyson Gentry
Dolphin Girl
"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us up when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly"
"Friends are angels sent down to earth to make good days and help us find our way"
"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails" 'Pioneer Girls Leader's Handbook'
"With a friend at your side no road seems to long" Japanese Proverb
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief" Joseph Addison
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human" George Santayana
"May friendship, like wine, improve as time advances. And may we always have old wine, old friends and young cares"
"How many of us today can actually strip our insides bare and say to somebody, 'Look, I really need you!' We can say, 'I love you!' twenty-seven times a day but it's not like saying, 'Look, here I am, vomit and all, sick and frightened. Recognise my need and my humanity." Rod Steiger
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"
"No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person" Paul Tournier
"Hold a true friend with both your hands" Nigerian Proverb
"Knowing you are somewhere - near or far - means I'm never totally alone" Marian C. Garretty
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends" J.M.Barrie
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts" Abel Bonnard
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings" Henry David Thoreau
"True friends are those seeking solitude together" Abel Bonnard
"A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality" William Dean Howells
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable" David Tyson Gentry
