Quotes with friend

  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
  • My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.
  • Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
  • The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
  • One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  • On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
  • The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
  • A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
  • Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aristotle A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Lincoln ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Gray A favorite has no friend!
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Emily Dickinson A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Christina Rossetti For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures; Little howe'er it seems, It is yours, all yours.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Joseph Addison If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Vera Brittain Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • St. John of the Cross Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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