Jailer Quotes

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems,
for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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 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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

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

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

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

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

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 best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

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

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

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

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie