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Doris Wild Helmering Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Doris Wild Helmering

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Friend Quotes and Sayings

The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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 feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

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

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips

A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

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

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- 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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)

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

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

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 true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

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

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

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

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

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 I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- 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

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

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