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What is a friend? I will tell you ...
by Frank Crane

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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

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

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

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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 friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie