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138 Meaningful Friendship Quotes
A collection of meaningful friendship quotes and sayings to remind you how special friends are. Find short and heartfelt words to share with your friends.
Friendship means sharing, caring, and being the friend that you want to have as a friend.
There is nothing like the companionship and the understanding of a close friend. The relationship between
people that share a fellowship is one where respect and an affinity towards each other are shown.
There is nothing like the companionship and camaraderie that is shared between people who have developed
a friendship. They have a significant impact on our lives. They provide uplifting words and encouragement
when we face difficult times. This is reflected in the words of Walter Winchell, "A real friend is one
who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
There is a bond and a connection we feel when a friendship occurs. Let the words below reflect what a meaningful friendship looks like.
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Among the finest gifts of life is friendship, good and true -
The kind of friendship I have found so nicely in you.
Author Unknown
Quotes For A Friend
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Unless my heart might serve a worthy friend - for his sweet sake, I'll go to earth's far end.
Ardeen Foster, Master - Not Man
Famous Poems
- The key to friendship with God is not changing what you do,
but changing your attitude toward what you do.
Brother Lawrence
Poems About God
A relationship with God changes not only your life, but the life of those around you
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God cares, he places friends in our lives to inspire us in the good times and the bad.
Sam Fickinsen
Christian Poems
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I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
Lucy M. Montgomery
Be Thankful Quotes

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"You need friendships that build you up and never tear you down."
Larry Hagner, The Dad's Edge
Poems of Encouragement
A friend should be a source of encouragement and support, if they do not encourage and support you they are not a friend they are just an acquaintance.
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Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.
Fred Rogers
Forgiveness Quotes
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden.
Goethe
Garden Poems
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
Famous Poems About Life
A great quote that holds much truth, think of the times in your life when you need help or support - friends are there when we need them
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For all the friends to us so dear....my heart breaks out in joy and sings
Thanksgiving.
Cobb, Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Poems
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J. C. Ryle
Quotes About The Bible
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
Valentines Day Poems
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I believe—that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
Unknown, I Believe That
I Believe Poems
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Say well has friends, some here, some there, but do well is welcome everywhere.
Unknown, Do Well
Good Poems
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...a smile is always sure to bring you new friends day by day.
Edgar Nye, Keep Smiling
Smile Poems
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The years may pass, but our friendship will last. Age really doesn't matter we always will laugh and chatter.
Catherine Pulsifer, In A Blink
Birthday Poem For Friend
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Love is friendship set on fire and you are my spark.
Unknown
Love Poems For Husband
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I'll be rich wherever I may go, because I've had a friend, and I have known a peaceful joy that some one trusted me
Christine Grunt Curless, Abundance
Abundance Poem
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No other friend thy place can fill - though absent we shall claim thee still
Grinnell Willis, Dear Friend
Goodbye Poems
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Your friends may be few, let them feel that in you and your word they can ever depend
John Imrie, Never Go Back On A Friend
Life Mottos
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The roads of happiness are lined, not with the friends of royal splendor, but with the loyal friends and kind
Edgar A. Guest, The Roads of Happiness
Poems About Happiness
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Happiness and friendship take away the hardship
Catherine Pulsifer, Rainbows & Lollipops
Birthday Poems
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"Somebody once said that love may not be
any part of friendship
but friendship must always
exist for love to be happy."
Sydney Smith
No relationship survives without love!
Short Love Poems
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes About Character
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Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Allan Frome
Quotes on Grandparents
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Narrow-minded men and women...will only give you distorted ideas of life, ideas that will change the sunniest and most healthful disposition into one morose, churlish and ill-natured. Be careful then, whom you choose for your companions.
Unknown, Choose Your Companions Well
Poems For Teenagers
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A sister is a sibling who usually becomes a friend. But a friend in a stronger way than your regular friendships.
Catherine Pulsifer
Sister Poems
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Home is where the friends that love to our hearts are given
Unknown, Where Is Home?
Poems About Home
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Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
Dave Brenner
Encouragement Quotes
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But now we older and friends we are - you even let me borrow your car - I couldn't ask for a better brother
Kate Summers, The Best
Brother Poems
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A daughter is a friend one who sticks with you to the end.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Daughter Is
Poems About Daughter
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Living friendly, feeling friendly, acting fairly to all men, seeking to do that to others they may do to me again.
Joseph Hobbins, You Ask Me How I Live
Words To Live By
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Saying goodbye is not the end because we will always be friends!
Catherine Pulsifer
Saying Goodbye Poem
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Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world.
Author Unknown
Flower Poem
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This day hath parted friends that ne'er before were parted; it hath knit new friendships
William Cullen Bryant, Summer Evening
Summer Poems
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Love is friendship that has caught fire.
Ann Landers
What Is Love Poem
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Graduation is more than just saying, goodbye to a classroom of books.it's leaving behind great friendships
Julie Hebert, We're Graduating
A New Chapter In Life
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That friend, and the greatest of all earthly friends is Mother
Burton A. Washburn, Mother! The Greatest Of All Earthly Friends
Mothers Day Poems
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... learn that hope of gain marks friendship’s worth, that love unselfish is the gift of few.
Susan M. Day, Mistakes
Poems About Mistakes
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What shall I do, my friend, when you are gone forever?
Mary Clemmer, What Shall I Do
Funeral Poems
- Empathy is about standing shoulder to shoulder with a friend, facing life together.
Tracy Wilde, Finding the Lost Art of Empathy
Poems About Life
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Blessings are like friends, I hold, who love and labor near us. We ought to raise our notes of praise while living hearts can hear us.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Thanksgiving Chorus
Thanksgiving Day Poem
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Dandelions are just friendly little weeds who only want to be loved like flowers.
Heather Babcock
Dandelion Poems
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Rather feel a brother's hand clasped in mine, as friendship's vow than in pomp and pride to stand with a crown upon my brow.
Edgar A. Guest, A Choice
Life Choices
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Union, friendship and devotion, is the cord of love, the golden twine.
J. J. Thorne, Sweet Is Contentment
Poems About Contentment
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A sister in a friend will come and go but a friend in a sister will always remain.
Author Unknown
Sister Quotes
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My brother is a true friend of mine, he is always loyal and true. No matter what the situation he always comes through
Catherine Pulsifer, You Are The Best Brother
Brother Poems From Sister
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If you want friends, be friendly.
Unknown, If
Poems About Stress
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The friendship of the good and true is more to me than gold,
John Imrie, Friendship
Easy Poems to Memorize
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Thanks...for the friendship that reaches a kindly hand.
Christie Lund, Thanks
Be Thankful Poems
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Show friendship's bond is strong and sweet - thus, hand-in-hand, friends understand the meaning true — "God-be-with-you!"
John Imrie
Good-bye Means Not Farewell
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If with promises you've broken, you have chilled the hearts of men; it is vain to look for friendship for it will not come again.
Edgar A. Guest, An Easy World
Poems About Truth
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The smile of friendship crowns the day, and hearts are young though heads be grey: friends never part!
John Imrie
To My Friends
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For friends aren't like family, they are someone you choose.
They love you not because they have to, but because they want to.
Julie Hebert
While family is important there is a difference between family and friends. As Julie states we choose our friends!
Poems About Family
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Be glad, and your friends are many; be sad and you lose them all
John A. Joyce, Love and Laughter
Which Type Are You
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You are richer today than you were yesterday if...made a new friend today
Unknown, You Are Richer Today
You Don't Have To Be Rich
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...summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
George R.R. Martin
Winter Poems
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When friendship is exercised, it places happiness there.
J. J. Thorne
Hopes Of Joy
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A sister is a sibling who usually becomes a friend. But a friend in a stronger way than your regular friendships.
Catherine Pulsifer
Sister Poems
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No New Year can overthrow this our friendship that has grown from the years that now are flown
Unknown, Let The New Year Be
The Old Year And The New
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Now we both move on but our friendship will never be gone!
Catherine Pulsifer, So Fast
Graduation Wishes For A Friend
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Today you're more than, just a grandmother to me. You're my friend, and someone I aspire to be.
Julie Hebert, To My Grandmother
Grandma Poems
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But let us remember that while it is the true friendship of man that Jesus offers us, it is also that of God.
Robert Boyd, Christ Our True Friend
I Love To Think Of Jesus
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
Bruce Lee
What Is Love Poem
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Be glad, and your friends are many; be sad, and you lose them all
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude Poem
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When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
Steve Maraboli
Dare To Be
Friends together
can conquer life's stormy weather
When saying "Thank you" you have an opportunity to let family or friends know how much their deed,
words, or kindness meant to you.
Robyn Freedman Spizman, The Thank You Book
Never take a friendship for granted, always express appreciation and thanks.
Thank You Friend
Love cannot bind us more truly in golden or silken chain; like friends, we'll journey together
Eloise A. Skimings, I Wish You
New Year Poems
Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend: you can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
Edgar A. Guest, It Isn't Costly
Poems About Money
Grown men are wearisome at times, and selfish pleasures jar,
But sons and dads throughout the world the truest comrades are.
Edgar A. Guest, The Finest Fellowship
Only A Dad
The generous man robs none of gladness- and never scorns old friends for new.
Richard Henry Stoddard, Roses, I See The Sweetest Roses
Rose Poems
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss, The House By The Side Of The Road
Poems About Helping Others
There's joy for us a-plenty, there are tasks for us to do, and life is worth the living, for the friends we know are true.
Edgar A. Guest, The New Days
A New Day Poem

The friend of tomorrow is the one who has remained through the swamps and quagmires of life.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Difficult Times Quotes
And, we all have the swamps and quagmires in this life - true friends stick with us no matter how deep the swamp
You've always been there for me this I knew. You're not just a Mother, but a dear friend too.
Charley, For Mom
For Mom
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends
Shirley MacLaine
Poems About Travel
When a man meets a friend with a cloud on his brow, and a look that shows worry and fret, he should use every effort to lighten his care...
Quincy Kilby
A Laugh Pays Best In The End
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys,
and keys to fit our locks.
Richard Bach
Soulmate Poems

"May laughter fill your home, relieve your stress, and strengthen
your friendships."
Catherine Pulsifer
Laugh Quotes
Laughter keeps friendships strong.
A friendly smile will open doors of friendship and relieve others hardship.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Friendly Smile
A Friendly Beaming Smile
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets.
Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
William Shakespeare
New Friends and Old Friends
A great analogy that supports the foundation of friendship.
Bonds of friendship are like no other
My only prayer is, while I live, - God make me worthy of my friends!
Frank Dempster Sherman, Joy In Life
Poems About Joy
"They bring a joy, a healing power that shines out far and wide.....
The ever patient, faithful friends to keep watch by your side!"
John McLeod
Faithful Friends
The author is referring to our pets, true companionship and affection can be found in them
A true friend is one who cares - friends like this are so rare
Catherine Pulsifer, A True Friend Is One...
True Friendship Poems
There is a bond between friends that should never be broken!
Although you aren't our real Dad - to us, you've been a friend, we are so lucky and so glad.
Julie Hebert, To Step Dad From Us
Step Dad Poems
For This One Hour I can be grateful...for friends, and for a hundred other blessings
William Arthur Ward
For This One Hour
My books, my friends in solitude...whose silent voices gently speak in the great thoughts I love to seek.
Unknown, Friends In Solitude
Poems About Books

How blessed could we be, to have found each other?
I can tell you one thing, I wouldn't want any other.
Julie Hebert
Friends Are A Blessing
To have no patrons but sincere good friend to whom we're bound by naught but friendship ties
Patience Strong, Independence Day
Shadows
The climate of our days is influenced...more by the friends we make than by the people we meet;
William Arthur Ward
Service To Others
Wisdom teaches:....the miracle of love; the meaning of friendship
William Arthur Ward, Wisdom Teaches
Wisdom Poems
Short but Meaningful
While these friendship quotations may be short, they contain significant words that are indicative of what a friendship means.
Many time you will find the wisest and deepest words can also be the
briefest number of words!
Are you willing... To stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough
Henry VanDyke, Ready To Keep Christmas
Christmas Card Poem
Best friendships are roots.
Jerry Jenkins, Twelve Things I Want my Kids to Remember
Best Friend Poems
The closeness we develop with people happens over time.
... a friend's face when seen again sets the heart-pulses ringing
Arthur Linton, Rain
Nature Poems
There's nothing like a good old hug...a friend to share the moments with to talk with and to listen
John McLeod, There Is Nothing Like
Welcome Friends
Love unites us friends together, our union sweet and dear ;
J. J. Thorne
Love Is
...do you value a friendship enough to take but a few minutes out of your day to send communication of concern, greetings, congratulations, or of hope and encouragement.
Byron Pulsifer
Forget-Me-Not
...mother - patient kind and true, no other friend in all the world will be so true to you.
Poet Unknown
You Only Get One Mother
The best relationship is true friendship
A great friend gives expecting nothing in return
Jennifer Price
Desiderata Poem
This quote reflects a key to success in friendship.
...true friends will walk with us in the good times and in the hard times.
Byron Pulsifer
A Mile With Me
The light of friendship cheers the darkest way — when constantly it sheds its blessed ray
Arthur Franklin Fuller, Gray Ballad
Blessings Abundance
Make new friends, but keep the old; those are silver, these are gold.
Joseph Parry
Short Positive Quotes
.... true friends, who give of themselves and their resources, do not expect to get anything in return.
Byron Pulsifer
A Friend's Greeting
Our dark-day friends...like glints of sun come smiling through with summer in their words and eyes!
NIxon Waterman, Our Dark-Day Friends
To Know All Is To Forgive All
The joy of this world, when you've summed it all up, is found in the making of friends.
Edgar A. Guest
The Making Of Friends
Let the friends around you know the love you have before they go, show it now.
Chas. R. Skinner, Now
Kindness Poems
Hope as you may for the dearest of friends is not given to you unless you at first are that dear friend to someone else.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Poems About Hope
If you have a friend worth loving, love him. Yes, and let him know
Rev. Charles A. Eubanks, Kinship
Planting Seeds of Kindness
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
Alexander Eastman
Poems About Character
For sweet it will be in death's darksome hour, to feel and to know, some kind friend is nigh.
Mary C Ryan
Tis Only A Rosebud

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Quotes
A famous Emerson quote that holds much truth. Never use a friend, it can destroy a relationship.
Share laughter and tears but with one who is dear!
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Saying
Irish Blessing Quotes
The generous man robs none of gladness. And never scorns old friends for new.
Richard Henry Stoddard, Roses, I See The Sweetest Roses
Rose Poems
May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam.
Irish Saying
Irish Blessing
Relationships flourish when all the little things you do and say become your habit not your exception.
Byron Pulsifer
When You Forget Valentines Day

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Life Quotes
A friend's smile
never goes out of style

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson
Meaningful Poems
The intimacy and closeness among people can be felt even when there is no verbal communication.
Sharing what is real about you is the key to building real relationships with others.
Michelle Tillis Lederman, The Connector’s Advantage
Poems For Women
Inspirational And Uplifting
Be motivated and inspire others by these inspirational
and uplifting quotations. Quotations expressing heartfelt affection
that shows the comfort and relationship between companions.
"Close friends become family and family is the true center of the universe."
Dave Marinaccio
Thinking Of You Poems
So, another year passes, another year older
Be happy, be joyful, don't let your heart get colder
Catherine Pulsifer, Birthday Wishes
Birthday Poems For A Friend
To be a friend a man should close his eyes to the faults of others and open them to his own.
Wilfred Peterson, You My Friend
Message For Best Friend
It's doing your job the best you can
And being just to your fellow man;
It's making money - but holding friends
Berton Braley, The Recipe
Be The Best You Can Be
Never let money override your relationships
This understated, overrated, the friendship we have found,
Is nothing more than two compadre's standing in the crowd.
Julie Hebert, My One True Friend
Short Inspirational Quotes
The camaraderie between people develops relationships
Bernard Meltzer said it well:
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
A friend to chide me when I'm wrong my inmost soul to see;
And that my friendship proves as strong for him as his for me.
John Quincy Adams, Faithful Friend
Strong Quotes
"I think there is a thread that runs through each friendship
and keeps it going no words necessary. Each knows what the
other knows about him through good times and bad."Â
Lauren Bacall
Train Of Life Poem
A bond and an affinity develops friendships
My prayers shall first be upward sent for those dear friends of mine who lent
Encouragement.
Douglas Malloch, Encouragement
Famous Poets
The moral is, don't be too frank, it gits you nuthin' at the bank,
just keep your thoughts beneath your hood, I'm tellin' you for your own good.
Berton Braley
Frankness Between Friends
Life brings us many a pleasure But you my friend are truly a treasure!
Through good luck or woe, the sweetest pal I know, my Mother!
Tiny Stoufer, My Mother
Poems About Mothers
As gold more splendid from fire appears;
thus friendship brightens by the length of years.
Thomas Carlyle
Poems On Aging
Light your fire and never fear, life was made for love and cheer.
Henry VanDyke
Inscriptions For A Friend's House
The world is wide, and many friends are dear, and friendships true
Unknown
We Love But A Few
So doff the sable weeds you wear and whistle something gay
- the friend you've lost through frankness would have failed you anyway.
Strickland Gillilan, Put To The Test
When Your Feeling Down Quotes
Think of me as one who will ever befriend, and the warm hand of friendship ever will lend.
Lillian E. Curtis, Think Of Me
High School Graduation
The smile of friendship crowns the day, and hearts are young though heads be grey: —
Friends never part!
John Imrie
To My Friend
We don't realize how important we are at times. As famous words state: "To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."
"Friendship is, strictly speaking, reciprocal benevolence,
which inclines each party to be solicitous for the welfare of the
other as for his own. This equality of affection is created and preserved
by a similarity of disposition and manners."
Plato
Appreciation Quotes
Be a friend. The pay is bigger (Though not written by a figure) than is earned by people clever in what's merely self-endeavor.
Edgar A. Guest, Be A Friend
Humourous Quotes
For dogs are very special friends and wondrous in their ways, they bring a joy, a healing power that shines out far and wideÂ
John McLeod, The Ever Patient Faithful Friend
Be Kind to Animals
Life is always sweeter
With a friend by your side
Planning a successful vacation with friends can be an enjoyable wonderful bonding experience.
Deanna Williams, Planning a Vacation with Friends
Vacation Quotes
We hope these meaningful friendship quotes are ones that you will share with your friends.
The mutual affection shared and felt between friends is comforting and rewarding in a
relationship between people. Friends could be people we have known since
childhood or it could be relationships developed at work, and for many
friendships are family members. No matter who your friends are we see meaningful relationships having a positive impact on
our lives! We hope the quotations and sayings are ones that you will share with
others.
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