A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
by Arnold H. Glasgow

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

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

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

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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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

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

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