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A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard 
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
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 true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- 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
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
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
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
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 takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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 real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
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 single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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