A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
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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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- 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 meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
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
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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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