Quotes needed!

[mousme]

Hola folks!

I'm in the middle of a LiveJournal Modification Blitz, and am putting friendship-related quotes on my friends page. Tacky, I know, but I want to do it.

Unfortunately, I'm running out of quotes and I have a ton of space left over.

So I'm appealing to, well, my friends for help. Any quotes having to do with friendship (nice ones!!!!) would be welcome.

Thanks

Comments

A friend is...

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

...somebody who'll always pitch in to dispose of the body.

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

I found most of these at www.quotegeek.com

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Don't walk in front of me because I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me because I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

Possible quote? ;-)

[dgwyn.livejournal.com]

"I had a friend in the CIA who had a stutter. It got him killed."
Otto played by Kevin Kline in "A fish called Wanda."
;-)

[dgwyn.livejournal.com]

"Friends, Romans, countrymen,..."
*a thwack, followed by a thud as an eraser hits my forehead*

Quotations

[curtana.livejournal.com]

From my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations:

"I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow." - William Blake

"Choose an author as you choose a friend." - Wentworth Dillon, Lord Roscommon

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." - E.M. Forster

"Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?" - Nicholas Grimald

"'I don't want him,' said Rabbit. 'But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.'" - A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

"There is nothing upon the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! a friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!" - Fanny Burney

"I often wish that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a-year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land, set out to plant a wood." - Jonathan Swift, "Imitation of Horace"

"In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part." - Alexander Pope writing to Jonathan Swift, 1732.

"The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it." - William Cowper

"Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. Go thou and do likewise." - James Joyce (sorry, but this one made me laugh too much to pass up!)

"He makes no friend who never made a foe." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two." - Norman Douglas

"Whatever you think of your friend, he thinks the same of you." - Midrash, Sifre Deuteronomy, piska 24

"When he was asked 'What is a friend?' he said 'One soul inhabiting two bodies.'" - Diogenes Laertius, quoting Aristotle.

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you." - Mark Twain

"Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends
Not on the number, but the choice of friends." - Abraham Cowley

"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first." - Peter Ustinov

"Our friends were not unearthly beautiful.
Nor spoke with tongues of gold; our lovers blundered
Now and again when most we sought perfection,
Or hid in cupboards when the heavens thundered.
The human rose to haunt us everywhere,
Raw, flawed, and asking more than we could bear." - Adrienne Rich (maybe not the most positive quote, but it was so lovely to read...)

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends." - W.B. Yeats

"I have lost friends, some by death...others through sheer inability to cross the street." - Virginia Woolf

"There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends." - Hilaire Belloc

"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy." - Spike Milligan

"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of old age, that age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." - Francis Bacon

"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you." - Samuel Johnson

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

"L'amour est aveugle; l'amitie ferme les yeux." - proverbial saying

"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement,
L'amitie de la conaissance." - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau

And a few from the Bible...

[curtana.livejournal.com]

"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." - Ecclesiasticus ch. 9, v. 10

"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." - Proverbs, ch. 17, v. 17

"It was even thou, my companion: my guide, and mine own familiar friend. We took sweet counsel together: and walked in the house of God as friends." - Psalm 55, v. 14

Friendship quote.

[shenlo.livejournal.com]

"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on the back of the couch."
-My Dad.

Re: Friendship quote.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

*ROTFLMAO*

Oh my God that is hysterical!