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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into
flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those
who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
"Are we going to be friends forever?" asked
Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
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 faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Ecclesiastes 6:16
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I count myself in
nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.
William Shakespeare
The proper office of a
friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly everyone will side
with you when you are right.
Mark Twain
A friend is a present
you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My friends are my
estate.
Emily Dickinson
Go often to the house of
a friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian proverb
Here is my favorite of all the inspirational
friendship quotes I've found.
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
A true friend is the
best possession.
Benjamin Franklin
It's the friends you can
call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
There is no friend like an old friend,
Who has shared our morning days,
No greeting like his welcome,
No homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Two are better than one,
for if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Friendship is like
money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
We are each of us angels
with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Luciano de Crescenzo
I no doubt deserved my
enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
