Tuesday, May 4

20 Great Quotes about Friendship

While researching quotes to go with my greeting cards about friendship, I came across more fabulous quotations than I could possibly use. These are my top sayings about friends; all are all short, sweet and to the point. A few are pretty funny as well. I put a few of these on my cards, I will post a few of them next posting.

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”

–Winnie the Pooh (AA Milne)

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them”.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you”.

–Elbert Hubbard

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

–Euripides

“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.”

–Bernard Meltzer

“True friends stab you in the front.”

– Oscar Wilde

“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

“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.”

– Pam Brown

“I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,…they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.”

–Oscar Levant

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter”.

– Marlene Dietrich

“The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.“

– Mark Twain

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends”.

–Francis Bacon

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

— Bernard Meltzer.

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

- -Christopher Robin to Pooh

“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”

–Fr. Jerome Cummings

“One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.”

–Hasidic Saying

“Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. “

– Samuel Paterson

“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.”

– Swedish proverb

“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails”.

– Anonymous”

“Count your age with friends, not with years “

–Anonymous