Best Friendship Quotes for Scrapbooking

How often do you go hunting for the best friendship quotes for scrapbooking only to find a bunch of trite and overstated ones? That's why I have put together this handy list of some of my all time favorite useable friendship quotes for scrapbooking.

Most of these friendship quotes are contemporary with a few classical friendship quotes thrown in for good measure. While I have numbered this list the friendship quotations themselves are actually in no particular order.

This list of best scrapbook friend quotes is growing all the time as I add to it - now up to 81 best scrapbook friends quotes and counting.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - That can make life a garden.   Goethe

1. Friends are the sunshine of life. John Hay


2. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow - Don't walk behind me, I may not lead - Just walk beside me and be my friend. Unknown


3. Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach


4. A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. Unknown


5. A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson


6. It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter. Marlene Dietrich


7. A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be. Debbie Alicen


8. My friend. You never expect too much of me. You are glad when I succeed but failure makes no difference to you. You give me all the help you can - but, more important, you are simply there. Wendy Jean Smith


9. My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me. Henry Ford


10. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik


11. A friend by a phone call, a popping in, a chance meeting, a small unexpected surprise, puts a little jam on the day's bread and butter. J.R.C.


12. A friend never says "I told you so" - even when she did. Wendy Jean Smith


13. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck


14. A friend is someone who arrives when you have the flu with a bag of oranges, the thriller you wanted to read and a bunch of flowers. They put the flowers in a vase, make you a hot drink, do the washing up - and go. Pam Brown


15. 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


16. Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? Richard Bach


17. Hold a true friend with both your hands. In a friend you find a second self. Isabelle Norton


18. "Are we going to be friends forever?" Asked Piglet. "Even longer", Pooh answered. A.A. Milne


19. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another "What you too? I thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis


20. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller


21. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali


22. Good friends are like angels, you don't have to see them, to know they are there. Unknown


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


24. What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. Frank Crane


25. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust


26. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell


27. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson


28. A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else. Unknown


29. Love is temporary...but friends are forever. Kelly Wheeler


30. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer


31. Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. Cindy Lew


32. Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. Claude Mermet


33. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
    Aristotle


34. Wherever you may be it is your friends who make your world. Unknown


35. Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life. Unknown


36. A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you. Unknown


37. The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy


38. A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend! Unknown


39. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen


40. Some people come into our lives,leave footprints on our hearts,and we are never the same. Unknown


41. The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Unknown


42. A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand ... and touches your heart. Unknown


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


44. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini


45. Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. Unknown


46. A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Unknown


47. The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile, and your friends smile back. Japanese Zen Proverb


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


49. A joy shared is a joy doubled. Goethe


50. The best mirror is an old friend. Proverb


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


52. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus


53. Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant. Unknown


54. A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. Frances Ward Weller


55. Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. Bill Watterson


56. A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson


57. Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck


58. A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. Sarah Valdez


59. Friends are like quilts: Lives pieced together, stitched with memories, and bound by love. Unknown


60. Friendship begins because even without words we understand how someone feels. Joan Walsh Anglund


61. 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. Arabian Proverb


62. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck


63. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison


64. I believe in angels, the kind Heaven sends. I am surrounded by angels, but I call them my best friends. Unknown


65. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold


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


67. Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together. Unknown


68. Sometimes, talking to your best friend is the only therapy you need.Unknown


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


70. We've been friends for so long I can't remember which one is the bad influence.D J Hinton


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


72. If I had only one friend left, I'd want it to be you. Dan Seals


73. A best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway. Elbert Hubbard


74. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey


75. One million memories, ten thousand inside jokes, one hundred shared secrets, one reason: best friends. Unknown


76. True friends are like diamonds - bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. Nicole Richie


77. How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company. Brigitte Nicole


78. Life without friendship, is like the sky without the sun. Unknown


79. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. George Eliot


80. Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty. Collins English Dictionary


81. You are my best friend, my go-to person when life gets wobbly. There is nothing that I'm afraid to tell you because I know you won't judge me. Susan M Lynch

Final Thoughts

Hope you have enjoyed this list of friendship quotations for scrapbookers. I will be adding to this list of scrapbooking friendship quotes as time goes on so please remember to bookmark this page and share it so you can return easily. If you have a favorite friendship quote that isn't on the list but you reckon it ought to be please let me know.

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