Friends

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If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
~ Stone Temple Pilots

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

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

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

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~ Mencius

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

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay
~ Dave Matthews

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
~ Tim McGraw

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
~ Lee Iacocca

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
~ Nigerian Proverb

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

Friendship... A Ship without which you cannot pass the river of your LIFE.
~ Nabeel Faruqui

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
~ Henry Kissinger

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
~ Hilaire Belloc

God gives us our relatives — thank God we can choose our friends.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
~ Virginia Wolf

To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was, "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
~ Aristotle

Love is Only Chatter!
Friendship is all that matters.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Norton

That's what friends are for.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
~Muhammed Ali

There is nothing better in this world than having a friend to love.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~Donna Roberts

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse

A friend is someone who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose and hard to forget.

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~Arnold Glasow

A true friend will listen to what noone else wants to hear.
~T.S. Mills

A true friend warms you with her presence, trusts you with her secrets and remembers you in her prayers.

A true friend is the best possession.
~Ben Franklin

And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend.
~Longfellow

Be thankful for your blessings all:
the happy memories you recall;
For time, which every heartache mends,
And oh, be thankful for your friends.
~Edgar Guest

Constant use had not run ragged the fabric of their friendship.
~Dorothy Parker

Friendship is a plant we must water often.
~German proverb

Friends are the family one finds along the way.

Friendship is a golden chain - the links are friends so dear.

Friends pick you up when the world lets you down.

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Friends are like rainbows. They brighten your life when you've been through a storm.

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.
~M. R. Mitford

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
~James Fenimore Cooper

Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
~John 15:13

Good friends are good for your health.
~I. Sarason

Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
~Emerson

Here's to friends, new and old, one is silver, the other gold.

I journeyed to the rainbow's end...
And found not gold, but you my friend.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
~John Leonard

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Marcel Proust

Life's truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile, leaving footprints in our hearts..and we are forever changed.

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

Maybe the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

On the road between the houses of friends grass does not grow.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~Sicilian Proverb

One does not make friends, one recognizes them.

The arms of friendship hold a warm embrace.

The best way to keep friendships from breaking is not to drop them.

The better part of one's life consists of one's friendships.
~Abraham Lincoln

The discovery of friendship is well worth the search.

The door of friendship is unlocked with a smile.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
~Barbara Kingsolver

The gold of friendship is a magic thing. The more we spend it on each other, the richer we become.

The journey to a friend's house is never long.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~Elisabeth Foley

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~Henry David Thoreau

The reward of friendship is itself.
~Ailred of Rievaulx

The value of a true friend increases through the years.

The heart of friendship beats with acceptance.

There are many types of ships. There are wooden ships, plastic ships, and metal ships. But the best and most important type of ships are friendships.
~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
~Elbert Hubbard

'Tis better by far at the rainbow's end to find not gold but the heart of a friend.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is
comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
~James Boswell

We'll be best friends forever - just you wait and see!

You can never, ever have too many good friends.

Your happiness is mine, too. Friends are like that.

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that you are always glad to be.
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day
As you have meant, good friend of mine, to me along the way.
I'm wishing at this special time that I could but repay
A portion of the gladness that you've strewn along my way.
If I could have but just one wish, this only would it be:
I'd like to be the kind of friend that you have been to me.
~Edgar A. Guest

What made us friends in the long ago
When we first met?
Well, I think I know;
The best in me and the best in you
Hailed each other because they knew
That always and always since life began
Our being friends was part of God's plan.

May you always find three welcomes in life,
In a garden during the summer,
At a fireside during winter,
And whatever the day or season
In the kind eyes of a friend.

Friends Without Faces
We sit and we type, and we stare at our screens
We all have to wonder, what this possibly means.
With our mouse we roam, through the rooms in a maze
Looking for something or someone, as we sit in a daze.
We chat with each other, we type all our woes
Small groups we do form, and gang up on our foes.
We wait for somebody, to type out our name
We want recognition, but it is always the same.
We give kisses and hugs, and sometimes flirt
In MSGs we chat deeply, and reveal why we hurt.
We do form friendships - but - why we don't know
But some of these friendships, will flourish and grow.
Why is it on screen, we can be so bold
Telling our secrets, that have never been told.
Why is it we share, the thoughts in our mind
With those we can't see, as though we were blind.
The answer is simple, it is as clear as a bell.
We all have our problems, and need someone to tell.
We can't tell real people, but tell someone we must
So we turn to the 'puter, and to those we can trust.
Even though it is crazy, the truth still remains
They are Friends Without Faces, and odd little names.
~ George Carlin