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
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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- 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 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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- 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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
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
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
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 sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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 true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- 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 who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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
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
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
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