Aloud Quotes

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

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

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

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 true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

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

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

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

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- 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 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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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