Wedge Quotes

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

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

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

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

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

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 walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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 to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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