A friend is someone who knows all about you,
by Elbert Hubbard

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

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The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)

Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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 to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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

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

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

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

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

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

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

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

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie