What is friendship?

It is an in-depth relationship combining trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding,

empathy, and intimacy. These are certainly aspects of life that all of us crave. Being able to
trust and relax with your friend is a big part of friendship.

Friendship Quotes: Proverbs

FRIENDSHIP PLAYS A VERY IMPORTANTV ROLE IN OUR LIVES, SO TAKE CARE OF

YOUR FRIEDS.

"Books and friends should be few but good."

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

- Latin Proverb

"A good friend is my nearest relation."

"A hedge between keeps friendship green."

"God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice."

-Sent in by Angela Kendrick

"The best of friends must part."

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."
- Chinese Proverb, (sent by Julio Fung)

"To have a friend, be a friend."

(sent by Julio Fung)
 "The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb."
- German Proverb

"Life without a friend is like death without a witness."

- Spanish Proverb

"The best mirror is an old friend."

"May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always
hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a
rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be
near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
- Irish Blessing

"A cheerful friend is like asunny day spreading brightness all around."
- John Lubcock ( English Astronomer )

"THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF SHIPS. THERE ARE WOODEN SHIPS

,PLASTIC SHIPS, AND METAL SHIPS. BUT THE BEST AND MOST
IMPORTAINT TYPES OF SHIPS ARE FRIENDSHIPS."
- OLD IRISH QUOTE (SENT BY -ROBERT J. BADAR JR.)

"The only unsinkable ship is FRIENDSHIP."

-Sent in by Jeff Sczpanski

" A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart,
chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift
it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest
away."
- Arabian Proverb

"It is better to be in chains with friends , than to be in a garden with

strangers."
-Persian Proverb -Sent in by Shawn

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

Danish proverb
“A road to a friend's house is never long”.

“Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.”

 “To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too”.

“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we
bid our friends good-bye”. .

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think
up something appropriate and do it”.

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to
explain nothing”.A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've
forgotten it.

“Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from
friends”.

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him
his own”.

“A friend is a present you give yourself”.

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends”.

“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy — for friendship's sake”.

“True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes”.

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one”.

“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life”.

“The only way to have a friend is to be one”.

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find
himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair”.

“The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,

And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,
For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent”,

“Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and
precious thing”.

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies”.

“Friends are the siblings, God never gave us”.

 “True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”

“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable”.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true
friends. -- Cindy Lew

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying

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

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."

-- Jewish saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle

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

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln

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

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

-- Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints
on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. --
Claude Mermet

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)
 "Friendship needs no words..."
-- Dag Hammarskjold.

"Friends are the sunshine of life."

-- John Hay (1871)"The best mirror is an old friend."

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward
for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but
woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not
another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

"A friend loves at all times."

-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man

may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons

to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)

o Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
o Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
o Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
o You can only go as far as you push.
o Actions speak louder than words.
o The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
o Don't let the past hold you back; you're missing the good stuff.
o Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it.
o A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
o If you think that the world means nothing, think again. You might mean the world to
someone else.
o When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there
o True friendship never ends.
o Friends are forever.
o Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are
always there.
o Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
o What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person
who made you cry?
o NOBODY IS PERFECT UNTIL YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM. (Isn't that the
truth?)
 o Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
o Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Spanish proverb

Give and take makes good friends.

Scottish proverb

Who seeks a fautless friend remains friendless.

Turkish proverb

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese proverb

It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.

Greek proverb

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Nigerian proverb

Tell me whom you frequent and I will tell you who you are.
French proverb

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
Latin proverb

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

Hindo proberb

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men
becomes a rational being.
Arabic proverb

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

Spanish proverb

A friend is like a poem.

Persian proverb

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.

Tongan proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech proverb
 When one friend washes another, both become clean.
Dutch proverb

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Proverb

2. Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

French Proverb

3. Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.

Chinese Proverb

4. Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Chinese Proverb

5. Kinsmen are born, but friendship is a gift of the gods.

Darkovan Proverb

6. Hatred watches while friendship sleeps.

French Proverb

7. Little presents maintain friendship.

French Proverb

8. Suspicion is the poison of friendship.

French Proverb

9. Presents keep friendship warm.

German Proverb

10. While the pot boils, friendship blooms.

German Proverb
Friendship should be unpicked, not rent.
Italian Proverb

12. Friendships are cheap when they can be brought by doffing the hat.
Italian Proverb

13. Money and friendship break the arms of justice.

Italian Proverb

14. Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved.

Italian Proverb

15. The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.

Italian Proverb
 16. A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship.
Latin Proverb

17. A trifling pledge of no small friendship.

Latin Proverb

18. Both are the better for their mutual friendship.

Latin Proverb

19. Friendship lasts as long as the pot boils.

Latin Proverb

20. In forming new friendships, forget not old friends.

Latin Proverb
Offer not the right hand of friendship to every one.
Latin Proverb

22. The silence resulting from absence has destroyed many a friendship.
Latin Proverb

23. When spherical bodies can unite and embrace, then there will be friendship amongst
the avaricious.
Latin Proverb

24. Broken friendship may be soldered but can never be made sound.
Portuguese Proverb

25. A son-in-law's friendship is a winter's sun.

Spanish Proverb

26. Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole.

Spanish Proverb

27. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Spanish Proverb

28. Because friendship is pleasant, we partake of our friend's entertainment; not because
we have not enough to eat in our own house.
Yoruba Proverb

29. Distrust is poison to friendship.

Danish Proverb

30. Gifts make friendship lasting.

Danish Proverb
Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need.
Danish Proverb

32. Kind words heal friendship's wounds.

Danish Proverb

33. Praise paves the way to friendship.

Danish Proverb
 34. Reconciled friendship is like a badly healed wound.
Danish Proverb

35. In the division of inheritance, friendship standeth still.

Dutch Proverb

36. Separation secures manifest friendship.

Indian Proverb

37. For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Indian Proverb

38. A hedge between keeps friendship green.

French Proverb

39. True friendship is like one soul living in two bodies.-.

Irish Proverb

40. The more intimate the friendship the deadlier the enmity.
African Proverb
Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
American Proverb

42. So long as the pot is boiling, friendship will stay warm.

Arab Proverb

43. As mills require two stones, so friendship requires two heads.

Armenian Proverb

44. Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

45. Friendship does not need pepper to cry.

Congolese Proverb

46. Warm food, warm friendships.

Czech Proverb

47. Your friendship is your needs answered.

Danish Proverb

48. Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

49. Justice knows no friendship.

Estonian Proverb

50. Do not let grass grow on the path of friendship.

French Proverb
Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love.
French Proverb

52. The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush -- soon gone.
 French Proverb

53. A hedge between keeps a friendship green.

German Proverb

54. Friendship is a plant we must often water.

German Proverb

55. Friendship is love with intelligence.

German Proverb

56. Friendship with the French is like their wine; exquisite but short lived.
German Proverb

57. True friendship does not freeze in the winter.

German Proverb

58. When friendship goes with love it must play the second fiddle.
German Proverb

59. To preserve friendship, one must build walls.

Italian Proverb

60. Mutual gifts cement friendship.

Ivorian Proverb
Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun.
Japanese Proverb

62. Better to lose a little money than a little friendship.

Malagasy Proverb

63. Friendship reminds us of fathers, love of mothers.

Malagasy Proverb

64. May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together.
May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.
Malagasy Proverb

65. Friendship is honey -- but don't eat it all.

Moroccan Proverb

66. Ice in spring is treacherous; new friendships are seldom sure.

Russian proverb

67. An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Spanish Proverb

68. To offer friendship to one who is looking for love, is like giving bread to someone dying
of thirst.
Spanish Proverb

69. A hedge between keeps friendship green.

Traditional Proverb
70. Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
Traditional Proverb