GIOTTODI BONDONE Quote on Friendship

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."  - Giottodi Bondone

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON FRIENDSHIP

"If friendship is your weakest point, then you are the strongest person in the world." - Abraham Lincoln

OPRAH WINFREY ON FRIENDSHIP

"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

MARGARET LEE RUNBECK on Friendship

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

FRIENDSHIP QUOTE ABOUT BEST FRIENDS

"Best friends: the ones you can only be mad at for so long because you have important things to tell them." - Unknown

CHARLES DICKENS Quote on Friendship

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate!" - Charles Dickins

ROY ORBISON QUOTE ON ELVIS

"He was the firstest with the mostest." - Roy Orbison

PIONEER GIRLS LEADERS HANDBOOK Quote on Friendship

"Joyfully will a friend hear the song in my heart and sing it to me when any memory fails."

FRIENDSHIP QUOTE

"Good friends warm you by their presence, trust you with their secrets, and remember you in their prayers."

WILLIAM ROTSLER Quote

"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend." - William Rotsler

From A Little Book Of Friendship
Published by History and Heraldry, 2002

ELVIS PRESLEY on ELVIS PRESLEY

"The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image."

HUEY LEWIS on ELVIS PRESLEY

"A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better." Huey Lewis

WALT WHITMAN Quote

"Good friends bring out the beautiful things in each other that no one else looks hard enough to find." - Walt Whitman

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN on ELVIS PRESLEY

"There have been a lot of tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one King." - Bruce Springsteen

RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quote

"Joy of companionship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile. It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to you when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

FRIENDSHIP Quote by Anonymous

"True friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget... "
- Anonymous

LITTLE RICHARD Quote on ELVIS PRESLEY

"He was an integrator, Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn't let black music through. He opened the door for black music." Little Richard

SWEDISH PROVERB about FRIENDSHIP

"Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief." - Swedish Proverb

We've been saving this proverb to introduce May 2010 because this is the month that VIVA LAS VEGAS, which is one of my favorite movies of all time as you may know from reading my Google Blogger profile, was made. I was friends with Elvis Presley when he was making this movie and got to know Ann-Margret, who has to be one of the most famous Swedish-Americans ever, a bit. I've ever since respected her as a person.

And over the last several months we have come to know that we have some Swedish fans of early rock and roll and rockabilly as well...

ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Quote on Friendship

"A true friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be going down."
-Arnold H. Glasgow

PROVERB

"One joy scatters a hundred griefs."