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May you find great value in these quotes by Isabel Norton.
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
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
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 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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
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
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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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 easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
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
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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 true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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