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True friends are really special and necessary people who support us in good and bad times, who make us laugh, and much more. An engraved gift is a way to show your friends how important they are to you. We often assume that thanks are understood, but sometimes, it just needs to be expressed.

These quotes, messages, and sayings about friendship could be engraved as a secret message on leather belts and bags, leather organizers and notebooks, etc.

1. There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. -Henry Ford
2. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -Elie Wiesel
3. 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
4. A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. -Frances Ward Weller
5. 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
6. Because nothing else seemed important. -Boy Meets World
7. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
8. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. -Khalil Gibran
9. There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. -Jim Henson
10. The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. -Chelsea Handler
11. Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them
12. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. -Anna Taylor
13. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. –Ally Condie
15. There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. -Paramahansa Yogananda
16. The greatest gift in life is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship. -Hubert Humphrey
17. Friends joke with one another. ‘Hey, you’re poor. Hey, your momma’s dead.’ That’s what friends do. -Michael Scott, The Office
18. When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. -Maria Shriver
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. 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
21. If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. -Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh Quotes)
22. True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
23. 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 friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. -Muhammad Ali
24. When you can’t look on the brightside, I will sit with you in the dark
25. 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
26. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. -Bill Watterson
27. One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. –George Santayana
28. I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends. -Fried Green Tomatoes
29. Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends. -Truman Capote
30. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasgow
31. Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word
32. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson
33. A friend is what the heart needs all the time. -Henry van Dyke
34. A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. -Leo Buscaglia
35. A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face
36. Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. -Vincent Van Gogh
37. Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends. -It’s a Wonderful Life
38. You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal. -Elizabeth Taylor
39. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
40. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. –Marlene Dietrich
41. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.  -Eleanor Roosevelt
42. Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there
43. I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen -Winnie The Pooh
44. Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends. -Virginia Woolf
45. Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. -Mariella Frostrup
46. We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence
47. There’s nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate
48. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -Henry David Thoreau
49. I get by with a little help from my friends. -The Beatles
50. Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap. -Anonymous
51. We were together. I forget the rest. -Walt Whitman
52. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. -Khalil Gibson
53. There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Linda Grayson
54. Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. -Misty Copeland
55. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasgow
56. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. -Barbara Kingsolver
57. 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
58. The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. -Ed Cunningham
60. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. -Thomas Aquinas
61. Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. -Oscar Wilde
62. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. -Henry David Thoreau
63. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -Donna Roberts
64. Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. -Thomas J. Watson
65. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -Samuel Butler
66. Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul. -Steve Maraboli
67. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. -Bernard Meltzer
68. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. -William Shakespeare
69. Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things. -Paulo Coelho
70. Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. -Sarah Dessen
71. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. -Octavia Butler
72. That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do
73. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. -Amy Poehler
74. 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 friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. -Muhammad Ali
75. A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. -Simon Sinek
76. That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do. -R. J. L.
77. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. -Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
78. As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them. -Gossip Girl
79. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! -Doug Larson
80. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
81. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust
82. The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. -Shanna Rodriguez
83. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -Eustace Budgell
84. How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company. -Brigitte Nicole
85. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -Walter Winchell
86. Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. -Dean Koontz
87. The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. -Awakenings
88. You can always tell when two people are best friends because they’re always having way more fun than it makes sense for them to be having
89. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. -Albert Camus
90. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich
91. Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love. -Stieg Larsson
92. A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part
93. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. -Audrey Hepburn
94. Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking
95. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -Richard Bach
96. A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. -Lois Wyse, Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration
97. The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. -Shanna Rodriguez
98. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. -Ernest Hemingway
99. I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. -Robert Brault
100. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. -Amy Poehler
101. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. -Francesco Guicciardini
102. We made a deal ages ago. Men, babies, it doesn’t matter…We’re soulmates. -Samantha Jones, Sex and the City
103. Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you’ve known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything