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May you find great value in these Wedge quotes and sayings.
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
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- 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
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 happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
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
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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 a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- 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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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 friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
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
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
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