Happy Friendship Day Quotes

• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

  William Penn

  Friendship, True Friend, Adventure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Patience, Cousin

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.258, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, World, Brilliant

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

  Elie Wiesel

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

  Muhammad Ali

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

  John Evelyn

  Friendship, Patience, Real

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

  Len Wein

  Friendship, Best Friend, Patience

  "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

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• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

  Solomon

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fall

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Inspirational, True Friend

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

  Mary Catherwood

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Friendship, Courage

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

  Eustace Budgell

  Friendship, Relationship, Strong

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• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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