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A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- 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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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 may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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?
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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 true friend is a source of strength and hope.
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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
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
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
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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