Next time you have some time to think, contemplate these friendship mottos.
Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time. – Source Unknown
Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity. – Source Unknown
He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud. – Source Unknown
Make friends before you need them – Source Unknown
Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends. – Source Unknown
Precious gifts of friendship… knowing the heart of another, sharing one’s heart with another. – Source Unknown
The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words… hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know. – Source Unknown
To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit. – Source Unknown
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. – Leon Uris
The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend. – Arch Ward
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. – Charles Dudley Warner
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. – Len Wein
Money can’t buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies. – Somers White
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. – Oscar Wilde
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. – Thomas Wilson
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. – Woodrow T. Wilson
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. – Dumas The Younger
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Brooks Adams
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. – Joseph Addison
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – St. Thomas Aquinas
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
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. – Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. – Aristotle
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. – Honore De Balzac
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. – Henry Ward Beecher
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. – Ludwig Van Beethoven
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. – Arnold Bennett
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure. – Bible
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. – Randolph S. Bourne
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. – Kenneth Branagh
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
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe. – John Mason Brown
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil — but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely – Pam Brown
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – - Eustace Budgell
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. – (Frank) Gelett Burgess
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. – Samuel Butler
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. – James F. Byrnes
Friendship is Love without his wings! – Lord Byron
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. – Lord Chesterfield