Friendship : The Elixir of Life

• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. B. Franklin
• There's nothing so divine as sealing a letter to a friend.
• The only way to have a friend is to be one. Emerson.
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Pubilius Syrus.
• A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
• Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
• Speak well of your enemies - remember you made them - don't bother why and how.
• Freedom and friendship are the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dyan.

• A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

• Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew

• Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying

• "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

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

• 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

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

• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln

• Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb

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

• Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprinFriendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-- John Evelyn

• Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.-- Swedish proverb

• A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous

• Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous  

• Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman

• "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

• "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

• "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.)

• "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.)