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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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 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
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
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
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- 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 knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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
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 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 friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
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