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

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

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

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

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

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

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

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

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

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

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

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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

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

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

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

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- 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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

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

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