A friend is someone who won't stop
by Due South

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship Movie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

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

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

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

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

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

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

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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie