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May you find great value in these South quotes and sayings.
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Related topics: Friendship Relationship Movie
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- 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 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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
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 true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- 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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
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
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 real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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