Friends Quotes
Sad Quotes about Friends

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan

Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- the movie The Godfather, Part II

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick