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In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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 
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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
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 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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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 true friend is a source of strength and hope.
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An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
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
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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