Friendship poems and friendship quotes are a great way of letting your friends know how much you appreciate their loyal, supportive, never ending friendship. Include a friendship poem, friendship recipe, or friendship quote in an invitation to spend the day together visiting antique stores, getting pampered at a spa, play golf or tennis, taking in a movie together, or by just having a leisurely lunch or dinner at your house or a favorite restaurant. If you are fortunate to have many friends, plan a pot luck picnic to be held at a park where there are several fun things that you can do together or bring some along.

For younger friends, learn to make friendship bracelets together. This is a great summer activity. Many of the summer camps teach this craft.

National Friendship Day

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,
make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!”
~ Amanda Bradley ~

National Friendship Day, proclaimed by U.S. Congress in 1935, is celebrated on the first Sunday in August. The official international Ambassador of Friendship Day is none other than that lovable friend to all, Winnie the Pooh.

My granddaughter’s 8th birthday party with friends (family is the next week) is on August 1. Some of her closest friends will be sleeping over. When I told her Friendship Day is on that Sunday, she got very excited. We’re going to plan a special friendship breakfast for her dad to make on Friendship Day and then they’ll learn to make the friendship bracelets before they go home. (This year it is also Ice Cream Sandwich Day, too…dessert for her friends breakfast?)

Friendship Recipes

At a retirement party, the retirees gave their friends candy bars with this friendship recipe on the wrapper they made from a template that can be easily modified for any occasion.

Recipe for Friendship

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups of patience
  • 1 heart full of love
  • 2 handful of generosity
  • 2 cups of loyalty
  • 1 cup of understanding
  • a dash of laughter

Directions:

  1. Mix all ingredients well.
  2. Sprinkle generously over a lifetime
  3. Serve everyone you meet.

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
~ Fr. Jerome Cummings ~

Recipe for Friendship, poem

Fold two hands together,
And express a dash of sorrow,
Marinate it overnight,
And work on it tomorrow.
Chop one grudge in tiny pieces,
Add several cups of love,
Dredge with a large sized smile,
And mix the ingredients above.
Dissolve the hate within you,
By doing a very good deed,
Dash in some help for any friend,
If they should be in need.
Stir in laughter, love and kindness,
From the heart it has to come,
Mix with genuine forgiveness,
And give your neighbour some.
The amount of people you can serve,
From the recipe above,
Is in the quality of its ingredients,
And unlimited amounts of love.
This recipe’s for the whole wide world,
For everyone to make,
Just get it all together,
And cook for God’s own sake!

~ Author Unknown ~

Amish Friendship Bread Recipe

A fun cooking with children project is making Amish Friendship Bread. You’ll need 10 days to prepare this friendship bread to share with your friends. Friendship Day can be any day you get together with your friends. Make this friendship bread for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any holiday – not just for Friendship Day.

Friendship Bread Starter

This is the Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe that you’Â’ll need to make the Amish Friendship Bread (below). It is very important to use plastic or wooden utensils and plastic or glass containers when making this. Do not use metal at all!

Ingredients:

  • 1 pkg. active dry yeast
  • 1/4 cup warm water (110°F)
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup warm milk (110°F)

Directions:

  1. In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water for about 10 minutes. Stir well.
  2. In a 2 quart glass or plastic container, combine 1 cup sifted flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or the flour will get lumpy when you add the milk.
  3. Slowly stir in warm milk and dissolved yeast mixture. Loosely cover the mixture with a lid or plastic wrap. The mixture will get bubbly. Consider this Day 1 of the cycle, or the day you receive the starter.

For the next 10 days handle starter according to the instructions below for Amish Friendship Bread.

  • Day 1 – receive the starter (the recipe for the starter is above)
  • Day 2 – stir
  • Day 3 – stir
  • Day 4 – stir
  • Day 5 – Add 1 cup each flour, sugar and milk.
  • Day 6 – stir
  • Day 7 – stir
  • Day 8 – stir
  • Day 9 – stir
  • Day 10 – Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Divide into 4 containers, with 1 cup each for three of your friends and 1 cup for your own loaves. Give friends the instructions for Day 1 through Day 10 and the following recipe for baking the bread.

4.  After removing the 3 cups of batter, combine the remaining cup of Amish Friendship Bread starter with the following ingredients in a large bowl:

  • 2/3 cup oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 to 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda

5.  Using a fork, beat by hand until well blended. You can add 1 cup raisins and 1 cup nuts (optional).

6.  Grease two loaf pans with butter, sprinkle with sugar instead of flour.

7.  Bake at 325 degrees F for 45 minutes to 1 hour (individual oven temperatures vary). Cool 10 minutes, remove from pans. Makes two loaves of Amish Friendship Bread.

Friendship Poems

Often, friends express their affection in friendship poems. Here are friendship poems you may want to share with your friends in original handmade cards made with love just for them…Buy card stock paper at a craft store, add a friendship poem or quote plus a photo of you and your friend(s), then embellish with card decorations, stickers, or your own art work that reflect your relationship.

A Golden Chain

Friendship is a Golden Chain,
The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
It’s treasured more each year…

It’s clasped together firmly
With a love that’s deep and true,
And it’s rich with happy memories
and fond recollections, too…

Time can’t destroy its beauty
For, as long as memory lives,
Years can’t erase the pleasure
That the joy of friendship gives…

For friendship is a priceless gift
That can’t be bought or sold,
But to have an understanding friend
Is worth far more than gold…

And the Golden Chain of Friendship
Is a strong and blessed tie
Binding kindred hearts together
As the years go passing by.

~ Helen Steiner Rice ~

You My Friend

You my friend
You don’t always show it,
but I know that you care.

You My friend
If I’d ever need you,
I know you’d be there.

You I’m glad you’re my friend.
Your smile makes me smile.
Your pain makes me hurt.

You My friend
I want you to know:
If you need me–I’m there.
make you happy, make you laugh.

You My friend
Sometimes you make me mad,
but I can’t stay mad.

You My friend
Sometimes I want to get away from you.
And sometimes there’s nothing I want more than:
to talk to you, to tell you about my day,
to hear about yours, to laugh with you,
to tease you, to share an inside joke,
that no one else would get,
to argue with you,
but know we’re just kidding..

You My friend
Do you remember the time when…?
There are so many times.

You My friend
Don’t ever lose the wonderful person you are.
Stay happy. Stay healthy. Stay you.

You My friend
I’ll never stop being your friend.
Don’t ever stop being mine.

You My friend
Just wanted to tell you:
I care.

~ Author Unknown ~

Friendship Quotes

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts.
And we are never, ever the same.
~ Anonymous ~

Among Life’s precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare.
~ Author Unknown ~

“Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don’t say.”
~ Anonymous ~

“A friend loves at all times…” Proverbs 17:17

“Friendship is the only cement
that will ever hold the world together”
~ Woodrow Wilson ~

“Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.”
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill ~

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…
It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things
that give value to survival.”
~ C.S. Lewis ~

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

“Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.”
~ Author unknown ~

“Friendship without self – interest is one of the rare
and beautiful things of life.”

“Give me one friend, just one, who meets
The needs of all my varying moods.”
~ Esther M. Clark ~

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when
he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.”
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

“Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode:
it is rather a life.”
~ David Grayson ~

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 forever.
~ Unknown ~

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone;
one should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
~ Samuel Johnson ~

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
~ Golda Meir ~

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
~ Mencius ~

“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.”
~ Wilson Mizner ~

“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
~ William Butler Yeats ~

“Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.”
~ Louisa May Alcott ~

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
~ Charlotte Bronte ~

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration.”
~ Pearl S. Buck ~

“I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship.
I am still very much a part of my friends’ lives and they are
very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have
this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective
and become isolated.”
~ Nancy Reagan ~

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without
it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

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

“A friend is someone who sings your heart’s song
back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
~ David Coppola, Ph.D. ~

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to
new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints
on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.”
~ Flavia Weeden ~

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by
another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.”
~ Albert Schweitzer ~

“You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.”
~ Dale Carnegie ~

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

“Friendship is like a bank account;
you cannot continue to draw on it
without making a deposit.”
~ Nicole Beale ~

“When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”
~ Helen Steiner Rice ~

A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift,
A friends is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.
~ Jean Kyler McManus ~

Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends
will leave footprints in your heart.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

Two may talk together
under the same roof for many years,
yet never really meet,
and two others at first speech
are old friends.
~ Author unknown ~

“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is the best ending for one.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~

Funny Friendship Quotes

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
~ Samuel Butler ~

“That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~

“Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.”
~ Esther M. Clark ~

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~

“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
~ Charles Caleb Colton ~

“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 ~

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin ~

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