Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems,
for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
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
I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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 friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
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
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
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
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 stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
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
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
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 finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- 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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- 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 happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government.
It is always oppressive.
- Thomas Jefferson
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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
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