Gifts From Friends Quotes:

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

source: "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

topic: Love, Friendship, Christmas, Special Friendship, Lasting Friendship

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

- Ed Cunningham

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiring Friends, People In Your Life

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Omar Khayyam

source: Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

- Thomas Hughes

source: "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

topic: Friendship, Thank You, Blessed, Making Friends, New Friendship

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Inspirational, Family, Happy, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

- Joe Cocker

topic: Friendship, Littles, Helping, Songs And Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, Friendship, Happiness, Benevolent, Not Friends

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Patience, Life Love And Friendship, Life Love Friendship

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

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Memories, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Real friends stab you in the front.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Real, Real Friends, Stabbing, Backstabbing, Who Your Real Friends Are

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Making Friends, Bff

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend, Bff, Life Love And Friendship

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

- Richard Bach

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Christmas Gift, Friendship Day

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Winchell

source: Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

topic: Friendship, Real, World, Making Friends, New Friendship

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

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

- Ethel Barrymore

topic: Friendship, Needs, Making Friends, Inspirational Friendship, Friend In Need

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

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, True Friend, Impossible To Forget, Making Friends

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, True Love, Real Friends, Making Friends, New Friendship

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

- Douglas Pagels

source: Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

topic: Relationship, Making Friends, Bff, Meeting New Friends, Inspirational Friendship

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Love, Friendship, Best Friend, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship

True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love, Stabbing, Inspirational Friendship

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Men, Special Friend, Fake Friends

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Female Friends

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inner Life, I Am Thankful

I get by with a little help from my friends.

- John Lennon

topic: Littles, Helping, Songs And Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship, Loyal Friend

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Adventure, New Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Lonely, Heart, Moon, Bff, Cute Friendship

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Life, Friendship, Real Friends, Making Friends, Female Friends

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Relationship, Homemaking, Wonderful Friendship

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

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs, Making Friends, Bff