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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 proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
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 was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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 happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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 true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- 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
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
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
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
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 new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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