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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
by Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 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 true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
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
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- 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 thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
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
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
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
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