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South Quote of the Day

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

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship Movie

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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