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

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

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

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 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 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 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

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie