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Erma Bombeck Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Erma Bombeck Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

Related topics: Funny Friendship Relationship

Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck

If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie