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This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
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
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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
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
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
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 best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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