quotes

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert Alan

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
-- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
-- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-- Aristotle. (4th century B.C.)

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino (1537)

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

"A friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"A good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)

"Friendship needs no words..."
-- Dag Hammarskjold.

"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)

"The best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
-- Charles Peguy

When you loved me, I gave you a whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Love hath swifter wings than Time.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Who can give law to lovers?
Love is a greater law itself.

To love is to know the sacrifices
which eternity extracts from life.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

Friendship is Love without its wings.

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with...

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Don't forget to love yourself.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.