WHAT A FRIENDS ARE FOR (PART 1)

A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Proverb

Sometimes just a smile on our face,
Can help to make this world a better place.
Stand up for the things that are right.
Try to talk things out instead of fight.
Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good.
You can help to make a difference in your neighbourhood.
-- Robert Alan

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
-- Robert Southey

The road to a friends house is never too long.
-- Danish Proverb

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
-- Anne Sophie Swetchine

Dont walk in front of me, I may not follow; don�t walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and be my friend.
-- Albert Camus

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
-- Source Unknown

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
-- Jaime H. Young

No woman/man is worth your tears and the only one who is, will never make you cry.
-- Source Unknown

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
-- Source Unknown

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
-- Source Unknown

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Source Unknown

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
-- Doris Wild Helmering

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
-- Yasser Arafat

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.
-- Erica H. Stux

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
-- Martin Luther

There is nothing more noble or admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer, Odyssey
-- Odyssey Homer

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
-- W. H. Auden

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Little friends may prove great friends.
-- Aesop

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa