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 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
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
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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 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
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
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 doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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 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)
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
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.
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
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
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 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
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
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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 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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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 friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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