What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
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
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
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
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
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
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
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 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
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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 meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- 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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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 knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks 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
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 brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
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