A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is one who walks in when others walk 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
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- 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
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
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