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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship Movie

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela

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


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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

 

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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

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

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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