The 1st Sunday of August is celebrated as Happy Friendship Day !
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - 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.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship - William Blake
True friendship is a plant of slow growth - George Washington
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. - Maya Angelou
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you. - Charles L. Allen
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
In my friend, I find a second self. - Isabel Norton
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
It takes a long time to grow an old friend - John Leonard
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. - Eustace Budgell
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. - Fr. Jerome Cummings
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy — for friendship's sake. - William Blake
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. - Pam Brown
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. - Buddha
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. - Farmer's Almanac
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it, one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is all about Mutuality, neither Individuality nor Singularity. - Aparna Chatterjee
What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend...once in a lifetime. - Little Rascals
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
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. - Virginia Woolf
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. - Lee Iacocca
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. - Rusty Berkus
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? - Richard Bach
A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart. - Anonymous
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -- the ones that last -- are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is...suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. - Dana Scully
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle
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
In true friendship, one can express anything and everything without feeling ashamed or afraid of being rejected. - Aparna Chatterjee
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas A. Edison
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasow
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. - Emily Kimbrough
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. - Rabindranath Tagore
A guy and a girl can be just friends but at one point or another one of them will fall for the other, maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late or maybe, just maybe...forever.... - Author Unknown
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. - Joseph Roux
