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If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard 
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- 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
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- 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
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- 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
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- 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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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