Poignant Quotes

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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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 most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

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

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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