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A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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 true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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 someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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
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 friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
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
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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 true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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