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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- 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 will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- 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
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
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 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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- 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
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
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
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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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