Friend Quotes and Sayings
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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

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

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

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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