Friendship Proverbs

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

So true. True friendship, they say, is priceless. Ask someone who doesn't have a single friend and you know how its like being friendless. The void, the loneliness, the inability to share can only be overcome by the oxygen of friendship. Its great joy to be in the company of friends, to share the ecstasies of life with them. Friendship day is an ideal occasion to let your friends know how precious they are and how much you treasure their friendship. Celebrate the day with your friends, have a party, tie friendship bands, send out Friendship ecards to all your friends and yes - don't forget to use these wonderful and touching quotes in your cards.

General Friendship Quotes -

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
-Walter Winchell

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813)

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

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

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

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

Historical Friendship Quotes -

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship Proverbs

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Books and friends should be few but good.

The best mirror is an old friend.

It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers. (Persian proverb)

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The best mirror is an old friend.