QUOTES ON FRIENDS
Dedicated to all of my friends out there..

"The only rose without thorns is friendship." -Madalaine de Scrudery

"It's really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it is really sad when the best of friends become two strangers." -unknown

"Side by side, or miles apart, dear friends are forever close at heart." -unknown

"Now may the warming love of friends surround you as you go, down the path of light and laughter, where the happy memories grow." -Helen Lowrie Marshall

"Friends are made by many acts, and can be lost by just one." -unknown

"I always felt that the great high priviledge, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." -Katherine Mansfields

"Hold a true friends with two hands." Nigerian Proverb

"Two may talk under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." -Mary Catherwood

"A friend is a gift you give yourself." -Robert Louis Stevensen

"It's smart to pick your friends, but not to pieces." -unknown

"Life without a friend is like death without a witness." -Spanish proverb

"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away." -Wilson Mizner

"I know doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserve my friends." -Walt Whitman

"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world losses some of its radiance." -Anatole Broyard

"Friends are born, not made." -Henry Adams

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle

"A new friend is like new wine, when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure." -Ecclesiastes 9:10

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One loyal friends is worth ten thousand relatives." -Euripides

"Your friend is a man who knows all about you, and still likes you." -Elbert Hubbard

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -Tehyi Hsieh

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." -Edward Everett Hale

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." -Mark Twain

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" -Henry David Thoreau

"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life." -James Francis Byrnes

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." -Louisa May Alcott

"As you say, we don't need soft skies to make friendship a joy to us. What a heavenly thing it is; "World without End," truly. I grow warm thinking of it, and should glow at the thought of it all the glaciers of the Alps were heaped over me." -Celia Thater

"Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make... your life bearable." -Francine Du Plessix Gray

"God gave us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends." -Ethel Watts Mumfrod

"I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is love that has no exchange of payment." -Frances Farmer

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." -Katherine Mansfield

"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

"It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." -Marlene Dietrich

"Silences make the real conversations between friends.Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." -Margaret Lee Runbeck