What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard 
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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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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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 language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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 greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- 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
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 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
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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 won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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 one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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