A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. ...
by Erma Bombeck

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

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A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck

If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

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.
- Albert Camus

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

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

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie