Friendship Quotes August 5, 2012 (National Friendship Day, USA)  Save as Bookmark  Send this Page to Friend. Friendship Day Home   Friendship Day Wallpapers   Celebration Ideas   Friendship Day Greetings   Friendship Poems   Friendship Quotes   Friendship Recipes   Friendship Test   "Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake." - William Blake "Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art." - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist. "Have no friends not equal to yourself." - Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher. "Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends." - Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet. "A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist. "Keep your friendships in repair." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (as above) "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer.     Friendship Proverbs "Books and friends should be few but good." "A friend in need is a friend indeed." "A good friend is my nearest relation." "A hedge between keeps friendship green." "God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself." "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." "Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice." "The best of friends must part." "Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead." "To have a friend, be a friend." "The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb." "Life without a friend is like death without a witness." "The best mirror is an old friend." "May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you." "A cheerful friend is like asunny day spreading brightness all around." "There are many types of ships. there are wooden ships ,plastic ships, and metal ships. but the best and most importaint types of ships are friendships." "The only unsinkable ship is FRIENDSHIP." " A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away." "It is better to be in chains with friends , than to be in a garden with strangers."