| Ancient Quotes : |
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
~ Confucius |
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"We do not so much need the help of
our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
~ Epicurus |
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"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
~ Euripides |
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"A sympathetic friend can be quite as
dear as a brother."
~ Homer |
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"Two are better than one; because
they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one
will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he
falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
~ Bible: Ecclesiastes |
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"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
~ Euripides |
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"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their
labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto
him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him
up."
~ The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10. |
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle |
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other
goods."
~ Artistotle |
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
~ Apocrypha |
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| Contemporary Quotes: |
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
~ Jerome Cummings |
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"What is a friend? I will tell
you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
~ Frank Crane |
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can
meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain
for those who are friends."
~ Richard Bach |
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"A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out."
~ Walter Winchell |
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere
else."
~ Anonymous |
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"In a friend you find a second self."
~ Isabelle Norton |
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you
than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
~ Richard Bach |
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."
~ Richard Bach |
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"Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"
~ Richard Bach |
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"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my
friend,
as you will always find me yours."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven |
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"Love is temporary...but friends are
forever."
~ Kelly Wheeler |
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the
light."
~ Helen Keller |
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"You only meet your once in a lifetime friend... once in a lifetime."
~ from Little Rascals |
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"...no man is useless
while he has a friend."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
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"Friends are born, not made."
~ Henry Adams |
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"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."
~ Ana Nin |
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"A friend is like an oreo,
its not always that great,
but it always gets better!"
~ Erin Westbrook |
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I thank God for the way he made you, distinct, special and
unique. You were not made from a common mold.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer |
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"To know someone here or there
with whom you can feel
there is understanding
in spite of distances or
thoughts expressed
That can make life a garden."
~ Goethe |
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"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 Carnus |
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"Friends are born, not made."
~ Henry Adams |
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real
friends, then you've had a great life."
~ Lee Iacocca |
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human
being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this
light."
~ Albert Schweitzer |
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"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges
who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest
potential."
~ Rusty Berkus |
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
~ Abraham Lincoln |
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you."
~ Dale Carnegie |
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"Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
~ Gravestone from the 1800s |
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"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"To be your friend was all I ever wanted;
to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."
~ Valerie Lombardo |
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends
whom we choose."
~ Tehyi Hsieh |
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"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
~ Antoine de Sainte-Exupery |
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"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have
of a man's success in life."
~ Edward Everett Hale |
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"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to
learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell
them."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no
wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he
will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
~ Henry David Thoreau |
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I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for
that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.
Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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Where there are friends, there is wealth.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus |
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Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we
utterly trust.
~ George MacDonald |
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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 |
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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 |
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Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree,
but in the hearts of true friends.
~ Cindy Lew |
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
~ Abraham Lincoln |
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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must
one hundred try.
~ Claude Mermet |
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"Friends are the sunshine of life."
~ John Hay |
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One who looks for a friend without
faults will have none.
~ Hasidic Saying |
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
~ Walter Winchell |
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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
~ Samuel Paterson |
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"I keep my friends as misers do their
treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is
greater or better than friendship."
~ Pietro Aretino |
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"There is nothing worth the wear of
winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
~ Hillaire Belloc |
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"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but
a friend loves the man himself."
~ James Boswell |
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"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"A good friend is my nearest relation."
~ Thomas Fuller |
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"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol |
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"Your friend is your needs answered."
~ Kahlil Gibran |
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"Let your best be for your friend..."
~ Kahlil Gibran |
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take
the least care to acquire."
~ La Rochefoucauld |
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested
in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you."
~ Bernard Meltzer |
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"No man is useless while he has a friend."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
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"A friend is a present you give yourself."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the
friends whom we choose."
~ Tehyi Hsieh |
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"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you
must have somebody to divide it with."
~ Mark Twain |
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"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of
equality."
~ Woodrow Wilson |
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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give
him that determines the quality of friendship.
~ Mary Dixon Thayer |
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~ Leo Buscaglia |
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It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich |
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
~ Samuel Paterson |
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Good friends are good for your health.
~ Irwin Sarason |
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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to
cross the street.
~ Virginia Woolf |
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the
one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true
religion. The other is mere business.
~ Mahatma Gandhi |
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your
success!
~ Doug Larson |
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be
anywhere else.
~ Len Wein |
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"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 |
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"My friends are my estate."
~ Emily Dickinson |
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"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."
~ Walter Winchell |
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"Your friend is the man who knows all
about you, and still likes you."
~ Elbert Hubard |
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"I get by with a little help from my friends."
~ John Lennon |
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"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never
really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
~ Mary Catherwood |
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"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking,
affection and loyalty."
~ Collins English Dictionary |
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"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires
a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
~ Oscar Wilde |
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
~ William Shakespeare |
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| Anonymous Quotes: |
| A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory
fails. |
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| Count your age with friends but not with years. |
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| Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some
of it is bad. |
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| "A good friend remembers what we were
and sees what we can be." |
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"The better you know someone, the less there is to say.
Or maybe, there's less that needs to be said." |
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| "A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory
fails." |
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| "A part of you has grown in me. And
so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe
in distance, but never in heart." |
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| "Friends are those rare people who ask how you are
and then wait to hear the answer." |
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| "The most beautiful discovery that
true friends can make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart." |
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| "A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand...and touches your
heart." |
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| "How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye
to." |
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"Some people come into our lives,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never the same." |
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"I don't remember how we happened to meet each other.
I don't remember who got along with whom first.
All I can remember is all of us together...always." |
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| "A circle is round it has no end,
that's how long I want to be your friend!" |
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| "To the world you may be just one person,
but to one person you may be the world." |
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| "A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you." |
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| "It takes years to build up trust,
and just seconds to destroy it." |
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| "Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life." |
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"When a friend's in trouble,
don't insult him by asking what you can do,
think for yourself and start doing it." |
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"A brother is not always a friend,
but a friend is always a brother." |
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| "Never hurt your friends, not even in a joke." |
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"He who searches for friends without
faults,
will never have a friend." |
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"A person who has no friends,
lives only half way." |
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| "Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life." |
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| "Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." |
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| "Wherever you may be it is your friends who make your world." |
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"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh.
But I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry." |
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"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow,
I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall." |
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