Saturday, January 16, 2010

Quotes about losing a best friend

Quotes about losing a best friend

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~Samuel Pepys


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


Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb


Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ~Sarah Orne Jewett


I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~Blaise Pascal


Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ~Francesco Guicciardini


The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow


Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus


Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold


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


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


Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch


The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ~David Storey


Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ~William Hazlitt


In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, January 15, 2010

Best friend poems and quotes

Best friend poems and quotes

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter


Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit


One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence


Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis


Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf


There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown


The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown


It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich


She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved


Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald


A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown


Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Cute best friend quotes

Cute best friend quotes

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb


The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow


The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927


A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown


If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow


But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare


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


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake


A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts


If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Adabella Radici


If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. ~Samuel Johnson


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Best Friend Quotes

Best Friend Quotes

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf


The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau


She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald


Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing


Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992


It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard


The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake


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


I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield


We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton


Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate


The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver


There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin


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


Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus


In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb


Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik


I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson


No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Best friend quotes

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them."
- Anon


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


"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
-Tim McGraw


"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Anon

"Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher."

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it is a comfort to go hand in hand." ~Emily Kimbrough~

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross~

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share. ~Thomas Fuller~

“When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.”

"Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart.”

"Promise you won't forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
~Winnie the Pooh~

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
~Walter Winchell~

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
~Source Unknown~

"If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are."
~B.A. Billingsly~

"A true friend is someone who knows there's something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face."

“The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.” ~Unknown~

"It is by chance we met . . .
By choice we became friends."

"Tears may come and go,
But there's one thing I know.
All my life you're a friend of mine.
You can depend on me.
I'll be fine...
'Cause you're a friend of mine."
-Clarence Clemens

“One can't complain. I have my friends. Why, someone spoke to me only yesterday.” ~Eeyore~

“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer”

“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to” ~Unknown~

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
~Helen Keller~

"A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!"
~Anonymous~

"It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it." ~Source Unknown~

Monday, January 11, 2010

Best friend quotes

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow


Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown


Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown


If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit


There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich


A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor