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A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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 happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
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 only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
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 holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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 one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
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
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
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- 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
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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