Life is a spring morning if you've got a friend,
Someone to walk with and talk with and turn to.
Life is a spring morning if you've got a friend
To share a little sun with, to help you along.
Now and forever...you've got a friend.
-Alan Doan-
Yes'm old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
-Sarah Orne Jewett-
A friend is a neighbor of the heart.
-Blanche Harris-
To hear the whispered voice of another's heart and understand unspoken words are talents of those lucky few - people who are precious to the world.
-Theresa Ann Hunt-
A friend is one who: pushes you in the swing, pulls you up the ladder, pats you on the head and hugs you goodbye.
-Katherine N. Davis-
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to lie without you.
-Winnie the Pooh-
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
-Charles Caleb Colton-
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
-Dave Matthews Band-
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
-G. Randolf-
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
-Thomas Jefferson-
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
-Thomas Hughes-
Friends are the part of our family we get to choose.
Finding A Friend
There are red-letter days in our lives when we meet people who thrill us like a fine poem, people whose handshake is brimful of unspoken sympathy, and whose sweet, rich natures impart to our eager, impatient spirits a wonderful restfulness which, in its essence, is divine.
The perplexities, irritations, and worries that have absorbed us pass like unpleasant dreams, and we wake to see with new eyes and hear with new ears the beauty and harmony of God's real world.
-Helen Keller-
There's a special kind of freedom friends enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to show their true feelings. The freedom simply to be themselves.
A true friend will not always agree with you, but will be true to your best interests.
-Nicole Beale-
From quiet homes and first beginnings,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
-Hilaire Belloc-
No life is so strong and complete, but it yearns for a friend.
-Wallace Bruce-
No matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
-Stone Temple Pilots-
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
-Oprah Winfrey-
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
-William Shakespeare-
There is nothing final between friends.
-William Jennings Bryan-
There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
-Woodrow Wilson-
Each bright day has its sunset
And each rainbow has its end.
But no cloud can hide the light
Of my dear and trusted friend.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
-Pilpay-
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-
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
-Marlene Dietrich-
True friend is Love without its wings!
-Lord Byron-
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
-Jennie Jerome Churchill-
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie-
If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:10
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
-Henry David Thoreau-
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
