~Friends~
This page is dedicated to my best friend "Lindy".
We known each other since 1980 and she has been such
a unique and creative person.
She is the first person I lean on...when things go wacky in my life.
~Deanie~
A companion loves some agreeable qualities
which a man may possess,
A friend loves the man himself.
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A friend will bail you out of jail,
but a best friend will be sitting next to you saying,
"Damn, that was fun!"
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A force stronger than peer pressure.
You don't choose your friends.
You can't force it to happen...and you can't stop it.
Friends can come from the most unexpected places
and you'll love them all the more for it.
My friends came from all clichés, sides of the tracks,
and dark alleys......and the ones that every one says not to be friends with.....
are the ones who need friends the most.
Friend to friend, I will be there to the end, be it bitter or be it sweet,
I think that it is really, really neat!
That angels should be so close that we should have been each other.
All I have to say is thank GOD he sent me to the right path,
long or yet short, straight or even winding.
Even if it would have taken me one hundred million years to find you.
A friend so sweet I know is rare, that I would never ever mind you being there.
Thank God you were...or I might have not even be here!!
You taught me one of life's best lessons.
Help every one you can, for life is to short, be grateful for every day you have.
Even if it is in pain, sadness, despair or happiness.
I love you forever....don’t you ever forget
or I will have failed one of my most important quest in life .
Your friend always.
This is to all my friends, relatives and even enemies.
Male or female please learn this lesson.
Finding out that I had cancer almost killed me.
If it had it would have been sad..........for I would not have learned this lesson
or would have not been able to write this.
(sent to me by Cheryl Lyn (Coop) (Jeppesen) Carreau)
~Deanie~
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A friend asks only for your time
not your money.
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A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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A friend is a person who goes around
saying nice things about you
behind your back.
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A Friend is a Special Gift tied to a ribbon of love.
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A Friend is Always There
A friend is always there.
She listens when others seem not to care.
She comforts in times of need and despair.
She laughs when you have special joy to share.
She lifts the clouds from dark to fair.
She answers your call, no matter when, no matter where.
She has spirit, she has faith, she includes you in prayer.
She is special, she is unique, she is oh so rare.
My friend is always there.
(written by Judith A. Bittner-1982)
(copyrighted 1989)
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A friend is both a treasure and a comfort.
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A friend is like a flower...
a rose to be exact.
Or maybe...like a brand new gate
that never comes unlatched.
A friend is like an owl
both beautiful and wise.
Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,
whose spirit never dies.
A friend is like those blades of grass
you can never mow standing
straight, tall and proud in a perfect little row.
A friend is like a heart that goes strong
until the end.
Where would we be in this world
if we didn't have a friend.
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A friend is one to whom on 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 the breath of kindness
blow the rest away.
(Author Unknown)
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A friend is one who knows my song....
and sings it to me when I forget.
(sent in by a visitor to this site...she said it was a sign in the shape of a musical note)
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A friend is not a fellow
who is taken in by sham.
A friend is one who knows your faults,
and doesn't give a damn.
(this was seen on an old 1940's greeting card)
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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)
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A friend is someone who knows all about you but likes you anyway.
A friend is someone who knows all about you...and loves you just the same.
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A friend is someone who knows our faults,
yet find our virtues too...!!
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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself...
(C. Raymond Beran)
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A friend is someone who reaches for your hand,
but touches your heart.
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A Friend is there to Patch things Up!!!
(I saw this saying on a quilt wall-hanging)
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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
(Henry van Dyke)
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A friend listens to what you say,
a true friend listens to what you don't.
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A friend loves at all times.
A friend walks in when the world walks out.
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A friend will ride in the limo with you,
but a true friend will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
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A friend's eye is a good mirror.
A friendship grows when you plant a seed of kindness.
A good friend is a precious gift.
A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.
A good friend is like an angel who dispenses happiness.
A good friend is like an oasis in the desert.
(Old Chinese Proverb)
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A lot of people come and go through your life,
some fake and some real.
It's the one that stay with you through
thick and thin that you can count on in the end.
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A memory lasts forever,
and never does it die.
True friends stay together
and never say goodbye.
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A mirror is more honest than your friend.
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A real friend is one who overlooks your broken down gate,
an admires the flowers in your garden...!
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A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks.
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A ring is round it has no end,
and that's how long
you will be my friend.
(Melonie Mitchell)
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A true friend can hear a tear drop.
A true friend is a work of heart.
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A true friend is someone
who knows the real you...
and loves you anyways.
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A true friend is someone
you can sit with, not say a word,
and feel like you had the best
conversation in the world.
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ABC....Friends Forever ...We Will Be.
Ah ! How good it feels the hand of an old friend.
(Longfellow)
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All
friends bring happiness.
Some when they arrive, others as they leave.
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Always remember to shake hands
when you meet someone
because it is an ancient Israelite custom.
It signifies peace,
swears alliance and promises friendship.
(Olivia Condon Ireland)
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Anyone can stand by you when you're right,
but a true friend will stick by you,
even when you are wrong.
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As sunshine turns a flower's head toward heaven,
so your friendship lifts my spirits.
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As we go on, we remember,
all the times we had together,
and as our lives change,
from whatever,
we will still be,
Friends forever !
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Be good to your friends
and evil to your enemies.
(Plato)
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Best Friends Last Forever !!!
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Best friends are like four-leaf clovers....
Hard to find but lucky to have!
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Best friends you and me.
We'll be together till the end,
and when we die we will meet in Heaven.
We will always be together.
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Blessings are not counted in gold or dividends,
but by the love we share with family and friends.
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Blessings come in many ways,
the nicest come as friends.
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Boyfriends are the ones who break our hearts.
Best friends are the ones who pick up the pieces.
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Close to my heart you'll always be...
Friends from the start...
My sister and me.
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Come as neighbors, leave
as friends
~~~
Come set at my table
With a spot of tea
and homemade cookies
So happy we'll be.
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Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Count your age by friends, not years.
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Don't 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)
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Every good friend once was a stranger.
Every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it.
(Elizabeth Shane)
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Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
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Few delights can equal the mere
presence of one whom we trust utterly.
(George MacDonald)
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Forever love,
forever care,
my best friend,
is always there.
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FRIEND
What is a friend?
A friend is loyal,
A friend is kind.
It's very hard to
define.
A friend can be silly,
But knows when to stop.
A friend is something
that can never be topped.
They listen to others,
They listen to you.
They help pick you up
when your feeling blue.
They talk, you listen
You talk and they
understand.
Whatever problems you
come to and face,
A friend is there to
help pick up the pace.
A friend knows the
quality of what's inside you.
The last and most
important thing a friend should be,
My friend should value my friendship and me.
(written by friends Amy Blanton, Lauren Eich, Jana Abbott and Samantha Frederick
when
they were 14 yrs. old during a sleep over--- sent to me after visiting my
site. ~Deanie~)
Friends are angels....who lift us to our feet...
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Friends are flowers in the garden of life.
Friends are flowers that never fade.
Friends are friends forever
if the lord is the Lord of them,
and a friend will not say never
because the welcome will not end.
Though it's hard to let you go
in the father's hands we know,
that a life times not to long to live as friends.
(this passage comes from a song called "Friends' that
a 13 year old young lady sent to me...she said her
mother sang this song in church)
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Friends are gifts that heaven sends.
Friends are God's apology for relations.
Friends are God's life preservers.
Friends are God's way of taking care of us.
Friends are hugs for hearts.
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Friends are like 4-leaf clovers...
Hard to find and lucky to have !!
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Friends are like siblings
that God forgot to give us.
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Friends are like stars you don't always see them
but you know there always there.
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Friends are like stars.
They come and go,
but the ones that stay,
are the ones that glow.
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Friends are like "wedgies".
They know your inner-self.
They're intimately close
and it's always nice to pick out a good one.
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Friends are made in wine
and proved in tears.
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Friends are patches of love in a sunshine quilt.
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Friends are priceless.
Popularity is cheap.
~~~
Friends are sewn one stitch at a time.
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Friends are quiet angels
who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble
remembering how to fly.
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Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.
Friends are the best collectibles.
Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life...!
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Friends are the family we find along the way.
Friends are the Flowers in Life's Garden.
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Friends are the sparkling brooks
that flow through our lives.
(Walt Whitman)
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Friends become our chosen family.
Friends bend where fakes break.
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Friends forever,
right from the start,
caring and sharing,
from the heart.
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Friends forever,
Guys whenever !
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Friends
F - is for forgiveness
R - is for respect
I - is for intelligence
E - is for eternal friendship
N - is for need for one another
D - is for dumb mistakes
S - is for the sticking up for each other.
FRIENDSHIP - is for 2 of US !!
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Friends are siblings God forgot to give us.
Friends are the flowers of the garden of life.
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Friends come and go ............but family is always there.
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Friends don't let friends drink...
and take home an ugly man!
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Friends fill your life with joy,
your soul with sunshine,
and your heart with love.
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Friends forever right from the start;
caring and sharing from the heart.
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Friends gather Here.
Friends give their best and the best comes back to them.
Friends just happen along.
Friends like flowers give pleasure by being
there.
Friends make Life a little Sweeter.
(I saw this on a t-shirt painted with beehives)
Friends make life worth living !!!
Friends make memories...the heart preserves them.
Friends make the best collectables.
~~~
Friends may not be able to see the truth,
it's lies they always seem to figure out.
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Friends seem to be like aspirin:
We don't really know why they
make a sick person better...
but they do.
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Friends share the joy and divide the sorrow.
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Friends stick together when times are rough.
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Friends today are like melons;
We must try fifty before we can find a good one.
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Friends walk in and out of your life,
the real ones are those who leave
footprints in your heart.
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Friends we are,
Friends we'll be,
Friends forever,
You and me.
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Friends:
We can cry during sad times,
we can laugh during happy times
but most important
were there for each other.
That's what friendships are all about.
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Friends, you and me.
You brought another friend,
There were three.
We started our group.
Our circle of friends.
And like the circle
There is no end.
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Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives,
and remembering what one receives.
(Alexandre Dumas)
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Friendship has no name but Love.
Friendship is a knot that angel hands have tied.
Friendship is a road that sometimes gets bumpy.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies...
Friendship is a work of love.
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Friendship is like a bank account.
You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
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Friendship is like looking over a cliff , not knowing what you'll see ,
tree tops or rock bottom but whatever it is you know its right .
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Friendship is like a seed if you plant it,
it won't grow, but if you love and nurture it,
it will become a beautiful flower.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
(Mencius)
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Friendship is so precious...
it can't be bought with silver and gold.
Yet friendship everywhere abounds
for loving hearts to hold.
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of the world.
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning
of friend you really haven't learned anything.
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Friendship, like old quilts, stand the test of time.
Friendship requires compromise without feeling compromised.
Friendships form among people who strengthen one another.
(Franklin Owen)
Friendship's song is sung in numbers more than one...
Gather friends like flowers.
Give and take...are the pillars of friendship.
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God never loved me in so sweet a way until
HE brought thee to me and said Behold thy friend.
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Good friends are angels on earth.
Good friends are good for your health.
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget !
Good friends are like quilts, they never lose their warmth.
Good Friends Are Like Warm Quilts Wrapped Around Your Heart .
(Jaycee Alford)
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Good friends are like stars,
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
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Good friends are like the special flowers in your garden of life.
Good friends are never forgotten, they live within your heart.
Good friends know how to be invisible.
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Happy is the heart that holds a friend.
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Heart to heart we'll always be,
Best of friends, you and me.
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Heart strings are the bows that tie the gift of friendship.
Hold a true friend with both of your hands.
(Nigerian Proverb)
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How can you just be friends with someone
when every time you look at them
it makes you want them more ?
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How good it feels the hand of an old friend.
(Longfellow)
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I am always at your side.
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I asked God for a flower, he gave me a garden.
I asked for a friend he gave me you!
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I believe in angels...
the ones heaven sends.
I am surrounded by angels...
they are my best friends.
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I got your back....you got mine.
I'll help you out....anytime.
To see you hurt....to see you cry,
Makes me weep....and wanna die.
And if you agree....to never fight,
It wouldn't matter....who's wrong or right.
If a broken heart....needs a mend,
I'll be here....to the end.
If your cheeks are wet....from drops of tears,
Don't you worry....let go of your fears.
Hand in hand....love is sent,
We'll be friends....till the end.
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I met you as a stranger,
I leave you as a friend.
I hope we meet in heaven,
Where friendship never ends.
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I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day,
as you have meant old friend of mine, to me along the way.
(Edgar A. Guest)
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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.
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If I am your friend
then keep me so,
and let me not your secrets know.
For if "I" your friend become your foe,
then all the world your secrets know.
(One of my visitors to my site sent this to me and explained that
her grandmother always used this when she was a young girl).
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If I had a flower every time I thought of you,
I could walk in my garden...forever.
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If friends were flowers, I'd pick you.
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If friends are the flowers in the garden of life,
you are an entire bouquet !!
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If friends were flowers...
I'd pick a bunch like you.
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If luck is a raindrop I'd send you a shower.
If hope is a
minute....... I'd send you an hour.
If happiness is a leaf ....I'd give you a tree
and if you need a friend
you'll always have me!
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If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
(Winnie-the-Pooh)
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If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
(Stone Temple Pilots)
If you want friends....buy a cottage !
If you want a friend....be a friend.
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If you're feeling sad, call me.
I don't promise you that I will make you laugh,
but I can cry with you.
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I'll lean on you
and you lean on me
and we'll be okay.
(Dave Matthews Band)
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In the Cookies of Life....Friends are the Chocolate Chips.
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In the crazy quilt of life,
I'm glad that I've got you!
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In this world of ordinary people....I'm glad that I've got you.
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It is one of the blessings of an old friend
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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I've had many friends with whom I've shared my time,
but very few with whom I've shared my heart.
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Life is a patchwork of friends.
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eye.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
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Love may come and then go,
but true friends are the greatest love you
could ever hold.
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Lovers may reach for your hands,
then eventually loosen their grip.
Friends reach for your heart
but never let go.
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Make friends before you need them.
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Make new friends...
(this was a suggestion from a visitor who said this
was part of a Girl Scout song - picture of two
snowmen putting a third one together)
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Make
new friends,
but keep the old.
One is silver,
the other is gold.
A
circle is round,
it has no end.
That's how long,
I want to be your friend.
A
fire burns bright,
it warms the heart.
We've been friends,
from the very start.
You
have one hand,
I have the other.
Put them together,
We have each other.
Silver
is precious,
Gold is too.
I am precious,
and so are you.
You
help me,
and I'll help you
and together
we will see it through.
The
sky is blue
The Earth is green
I can help
to keep it clean
Across
the land
Across the sea
Friends forever
We will always be.
(Girl Scout Song)
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Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends leave footprints in your heart.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
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My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.
(Lee Iacocca)
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My friends are little lamps to me;
Their radiance warms and cheers my way.
(Elizabeth Whittemore)
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Never exaggerate your faults...
your friends will attend to that ~!
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New friends are silver,
Old friends are golden
!!!!
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No friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
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Nurture friendships.
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Of all the friends I've ever met,
you're the one I won't forget.
And if I die before you do,
I'll go to heaven and wait for you.
I'll give the angels back their wings
and risk the loss of everything,
just to prove my friendship is true.
I'm thankful to have friends like you.
~~~
Of all the gems on this earth,
friends are the most precious !
~~~
Of course there is such things as angels.
Only sometimes they don't have wings...
and we call them friends !
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Old friends are the best antiques...!
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One of the greatest pleasures of friendship...
is doing something nice for someone...
who never finds out who did it.
( great idea for giving something to a secret pal )
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Pick your friends...but not to pieces.
~~~
Pick your friends
like you pick your fruit.
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Real friends are those who,
when you make a fool of yourself,
don't think you've done a permanent job.
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Seeds of friendship are plated with love.
Seeds of friendship bring flowers of joy.
~~~
So many laughs through the years,
so many stories I hope nobody hears.
I'll always be by your side,
best friends forever....till the day I die!
~~~
Sometimes a library of words
can't say what a hug from a friend can.
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Sometimes I wonder...where would I be if
I never met you and you never met me?
Who would I laugh and cry with until the end?
Where would I be without you girl?
You are my one true best friend!
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Sow the seeds of kindness...
and reap a bounty of friends.
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Special friends become our chosen family...
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
(Louisa May Alcott)
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
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Tears, giggles, smiles & laughs,
late night calls & cute photographs.
I’ll be there for you until the day of my death.
Best pals forever until my very last breath.
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The best friends are antique.
The best antiques are old friends.
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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.
(Unknown)
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The best of friends must part.
The best ships are friendships...!!!
The best way to have a friend...is to "bee" one.
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The friend given you by circumstances
over which you have no control was God's own gift.
(Frederick Robertson)
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The harmony between friends is sweeter than any choir.
The journey to a friend's house is never long.
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The only thing better than a good friend...
is a good friend with a bag of M & M's...!!
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The ornaments of the house
are the friends that frequent it.
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The road to a friend's house is never long...
The touch of a good friend can be healing.
~~~
The truth is,
friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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There are good ships
and there are wood ships.
The ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships are friendships
and may they ever be.
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There are no strangers in life, just friends we haven't met.
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There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
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There's a Miracle called Friendship
That dwells within the Heart,
And you don't know how it happens
Or when it gets its start.
But the happiness it brings you
Always gives a special lift,
And you realize that Friendship
Is God's precious gift.
(Author Unknown)
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There's enough warmth in a friend's hug
to warm up the coldest day...!
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Time may pass and we may part,
but true friends stay close at heart !
~~~
To be a friend....it helps to bend.
To have friends...you have to be a friend.
To lose a friend is the greatest loss of all.
~~~
To the house of a friend....
the road is never long.
~~~
To you my friend, I will love you to the end.
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True friends are like diamonds...
precious and rare.
False friends are like leaves...
scattered everywhere.
~~~
True friends are loving,
true friends care,
and in the end the true friends are always there.
~~~
True friends are the ones that you never miss until they are gone,
and then you want nothing more than to have them back.
Hold onto these people; they're priceless ~!~
~~~
True friends can never part because it
causes too much pain for the heart.
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True friends live in our hearts forever.
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True friendship is like a glow-in-the-dark sticker.
It gets brighter as the world around us gets darker.
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True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
(Charles Caleb Colton)
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Two persons cannot long be friends
if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
(Jean de La Fontaine)
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Violets are blue,
Friends for eternity,
Me and You!
~~~
We all take different paths in life, but no matter
where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
(Tim McGraw)
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We may fight, we may cry,
but my love for you will never die.
I'll care for you until the end, because you are
my best friend.
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What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift,
but the friend's love.
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We'll be best friends forever... you know too much!!
We'll be friends till we're BLUE in the hair..!!
When friends meet hearts warm.
(John Ray)
When I count my blessings...I count you twice.
~~~
When it hurts to look back,
and your scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friends will be there.
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When life is hard, God sends us an angel
in the form of a friend.
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When we are young,
friends are taken for granted.
When we are old, we know what it means to have them.
(Edvard Grieg)
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Whenever people start talking bad stuff about you,
it's the best time to find out who your true friends are.
Your true friends will be by your side no matter
what other people think or say.
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Written with a pen,
sealed with a kiss,
If you are my friend,
answer me this....
Are we friends? Or are we not?
You told me once....but I forgot.
So tell me now...and tell me true,
So I can say...."I'm here for you."
Of all the friends I've ever met,
You are the one I won't forget.
And if I die before you do,
I'll go to heaven and wait for you.
I'll give the angels back their wings,
and risk the loss of everything.
There isn't a think that I would do,
to have a friend...just like YOU!
~~~
You and me....buds forever...!!
~~~
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
that you can in two years
by trying to get other people
interested in you.
(Dale Carnegie)
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You helped me laugh,
you dried my tears,
because of you I have no tears.
Together we live,
together we grow,
teaching each other what we must know.
You came in my life,
and I was blessed,
thank you friend...you are the best.
Release my hand and say goodbye,
please my friend, don't you cry.
I promise you this is not the end,
because like I said,
your my friend.
(Makayla A.)
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and
reap with thanksgiving.....
(Kahlil Gibran)
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You're my cup of tea.
May your days be steeped with joy
and warmed with love.
(This saying was sent in by a visitor to site...she has it on a card with teapots on it)
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E-mail me if you have other sayings to add to this page.
updated 4/11/09
Every effort has been made to give credit to the authors of the material used on this site.
Please let me know if an error has been made, and I will gladly make the necessary changes asap. ~Deanie~