Friend Verses, Sayings and Greetings

If you've made a card with a specific friend in mind, then it would be nice to include a special sentiment picked with that person in mind, wouldn't it? Here are some great ideas - maybe one of them will remind you of one of your friends!


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown

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

Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb

'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Adabella Radici

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. ~Aristotle

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

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

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne

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

I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown

Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? ~Emily Brontë

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen

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

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow

In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau


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