Friendship

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
Wilma Askinas, writer

Become the world's most thoughtful friend.
J. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959), actress

If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around that person?
Rob Bremer, speaker

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), poet

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Helen in Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met, yet. She's now in a twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage

Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's just enough to know they're standing by.
Elizabeth Foley, writer

Too many friendships languish at the bottom of our priority list, untouched like some endlessly postponed dessert. Too many marriages grow numb waiting for intimate stretches of time. Too few of us resolve to sing, or to walk in the rain, to make love, or to make someone laugh. Too many of us forget what we want.

The pursuit of happiness that once carried the weight of the American Revolution now seems frivolous and has to wait. But joy is also a habit. Use it or lose it. And happiness is not a banal smiley face to stick on an envelope. It's an option that we must exercise or watch atrophy.
Ellen Goodman, journalist

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, jr.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
Celeste Mackey

Being a friend is not a part-time job.
Corey Munn

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mensefield (1888-1923), writer

The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
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No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), novelist, essayist, and poet

Put your hand in mine
And I'll be there anytime
When it feels like you could use a friend
I'll be there to lift you up again
You can reach out to me anytime
Put your hand in mine
"Put Your Hand in Mine", Tracy Lawrence

Under the magnetism of friendship, the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
William Thackeray (1811-1863), writer

A friend is someone who helps you move. A real friend is someone who helps you move a body.

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Your companions are like the buttons on an elevator.
They will either take you up or they will take you down.

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying “Damn, that was fun!”

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Winnie the Pooh

A true friend knows your weakness but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward, educator

You are 100% responsible for 50% of any relationship.
Wyatt Webb

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, writer