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A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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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 most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
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 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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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 was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
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 is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
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 finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
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
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
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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 the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
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
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
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 true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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