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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
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 finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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 friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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