Friend Quotes

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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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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

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

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 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

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

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

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 single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

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

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

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

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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 true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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 only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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 old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

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 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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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