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May you find great value in these Poignant quotes and sayings.
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
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
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 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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- 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
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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 greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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