Quotation Explorer - 'Friend'

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 sees through you and still enjoys the view.
An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need. - Shannon L. Alder
There is not such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered. - Abhijit Naskar
A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly. - Debasish Mridha
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
You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! - Harry Truman
A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need. - Debasish Mridha
Kiss me. My lips are on fire.You, my friend, are the object of mysecret desire. - Lisa Canfield
We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. - Dalai Lama XIV
A true friend pays attention without seeking it. - Debasish Mridha
A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend. - tsegaye gebre medhin
Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results. - Euginia Herlihy
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
You are unique in the world, a friend like no other. It’s so amazing that we have so much in common so your happiness is also mine. - Auliq Ice
Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity! - Rossana Condoleo
Detach yourself from people that only exists when they need something from you. From people who only calls you a friend when they have favors and leave you behind afterwards. Remove toxic people in your life, they will become a hindrance to you. - Dembe Michael
Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'(Women in Love) - D.H. Lawrence
A true friend fills our lives with the aroma of love. - Debasish Mridha
The source of my suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart. This is a disease no doctor can cure. Only Union with the Friend can cure it. - Rabia Basri
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. - Louisa May Alcott
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
Speak no evil of an absent friend. (Non male loquare absenti amico) - Titus Maccius Plautus
Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again. - Virginia Alison
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her. - Kate Atkinson
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence - Kahlil Gibran
A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more. - Debasish Mridha
वो facebook पर भी नहीं मिली जहाँ वो सारे लोग मिल जाते हैं जिनको आपअपनी लाइफ में add as friend नहीं करना चाहते - Divya Prakash Dubey
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. - Seneca
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. - John Adams
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. - Aristotle
Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them! - Mehmet Murat ildan
We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out? - Debasish Mridha
Tarot Card are the best friend you can ever have. They are always there for you. - Nikita Dudani
Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows. - Michael Bassey Johnson
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
It's better to be friends with someone that is willing to be your friend than someone that doesn't. - PureDragonWolf
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - James Goldsmith
Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any - John Paul Warren
She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. - Kristin Hannah
Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more. - Jeff Buckley
I guess you were not my friend then, that's okay. I can see my true self, I can see yours, now. I guess that you did not look hard enough at mine. Or you would never have let me go. - Tina J. Richardson
You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every new friend is a new journey, through a brand new road, toward a brand new mysterious heart. - Debasish Mridha
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. - Charles M. Schulz
Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love, and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy - Bob Marley
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald
I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap - Colin Firth
When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense. - Gary Hopkins
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free
The most reliable friend you have is your shadow. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again. - Criss Jami
Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy. - Matshona Dhliwayo
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. - Dr. Isaac Barrow
A Company of a good friend is worth thousand people around you or else you are Gathering a Crowd - irrfan ishaq
It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend. - Acharya Mahapragya
Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent
The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy. - Ashly Lorenzana
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker
If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you. - H.G. Wells
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her. - Peter G. Nogel
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. - Ann Brashares
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses. - Katherine Mansfield
Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed. - James Hauenstein
It criticizes me,but my 2nd quest give me deserve a second chance but it is my own survival,My friend. - Kurt Reiner Suarez
A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them. - K.E. Garvey
Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes - Riley Amos Westbrook
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....one friend who always makes her laugh... and one wholets her cry... - Pamela Redmond Satran
Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make - Mohit Dhaka
Being honest may not get you a lot of friend but it'll always get you the right one - John Lennon
What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone. - Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)
On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat. - Katrina Monroe
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Praise the one who speaks ill of you. Before long he will become a friend - Radhe Maa
Speak truth even if you be aloneFor truth hath no friend but itselfKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. - Franklin P. Jones
A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt. - Debasish Mridha
{In a letter to his friend }I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not. Carl Friedrich Gauß - Rudolf Wagner
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night - James Patterson
He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
No matter how dark your night, my friend, may you always find enough light to take the next step. - John Mark Green
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief - Euripides
My friend is one... who take me for what I am. - Henry David Thoreau
They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em– nor God– nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next? - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Human Prejudice is Dark Fate's favourite friend - Prabhukrishna M
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend. - Dejan Stojanovic
My friend Annabel calls it "Reverse Perfectionism" - if a man thinks he can't do something perfectly, he'd rather not do it at all… - Shelli NT
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus
Try as a meditation, to be with a stone, a flower or a tree, and you will find that they have consciousness. If you become friend with a tree, you will find that the tree will welcome you as a friend. The tree will be happy to see you. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Selfishness and foolishness go hand in hand ; and its quantity in a person's life only decides as what quality of people s/he has as her/his friend. - Anuj Somany
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A true friend will never stand in your allotted beam of light. They will get out of the way so you can grow, but they’ll stay nearby in case you need what they can offer. - Toni Sorenson
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. - Richard Jeni
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. - George Eliot
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. - Arthur Brisbane
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies. - Idries Shah
I have been and always shall be your friend. - The Intrepid Mr. Spock
Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life! - Marcia Lynn McClure
A stranger is a friend you have not met before. - Quince
A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter. - Debasish Mridha
If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever. - Wency June Z. Libot
A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it. - Vinita Kinra
It doesn't matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, but God's love for you will remain the same. Embrace it, Cherish it, and Spread it everywhere you go. Let your light shine brightly for all the world to see. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - NIkki Fuentes
My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend. - Michael Bassey Johnson
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. - Abraham Kuyper
When your friend becomes a king, treat him first as a king, then let him choose you as a friend. Acting otherwise is suicidal. Familiarity is evil. - Tylor Ilori
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. - Doris Lessing
A real friend is one with whom you can be silent. - Anonymous
Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion. - Paula Heller Garland
The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend. - Stephen Richards
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. - Zig Ziglar
Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend.
I just want a friend who gets me and then wants to keep me—flaws and all. - Toni Sorenson
Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend - Munia Khan
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Doug Larson
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good book is a true friend who never betrays. - Debasish Mridha
Let's do this and this to see the consequences, who is real friend and who isn't. Who understands you and who doesn't! - Deyth Banger
None fills the void like the company of a true friend. - Rishi H Sanghani
Sometimes being a good friend is a simple as making yourself available. - Donna Carter
All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. - Cyrus the Great
The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend. - Paris Hilton
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend - Albert Camus
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison
You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends."Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it. - Lilith Saintcrow
What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. - Lewis Carroll
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane
A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves. - Elizabeth George
Mission accomplished' I said.Pudge my friend we are indefuckingstructable. - John Green, Looking For Alaska
A true friend sees your tears of sadness, And quickly turns them into tears of joy and laughter,Forming a rainbow. - R. Benzadi
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. - Benjamin Franklin
I don't think you're a very good friend if you're always being supportive. You also have to add criticism. - Jason Kottke
What have I become?My sweetest friend; everyone I know goes away in the end.And you could have it all:my empire of dirt.I will let you down.I will make you hurt. - Nine Inch Nails
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. - Dalai Lama XIV
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. - Walter Winchell
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides
Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure. - Donna Lynn Hope
Refrain from being selfish to others, instead make some friend and stand up with dignity. - Lenny Ramirez
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. - Solon
Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it! - Carmela Dutra
A woman is a blissful mother, a wonderful sister, a gorgeous daughter, and a friend with a kind heart who really cares. Wishing you a wonderful International Women’s Day - Debasish Mridha
Life is an opportunity to find a friend and to be a friend. - Debasish Mridha
Sleep my friend and you will seeThat dream is my realityThey keep me locked up in this cageCan't they see it's why my brain says Rage - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium
A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back. - Michael Bassey Johnson
When you find someone is crying and her life is torn, just be kind, extend your hand with love and be a best friend. - Debasish Mridha
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]. - William Shakespeare
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. - William Arthur Ward
Oh my lover, oh my friend forever,if I am not with you for any reason,You will be in my heart every moment,every day, every month and season. - Debasish Mridha
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. - Benjamin Franklin
A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends - John Chrysostom
Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. - Jon Acuff
.. And then he remembered that darkness was his best friend and it will always be. - Tahar Mtibaa
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. - Honoré de Balzac
An eye for an eye my friend. - Tsugumi Ohba
Be alone and love it. Be lonely and hate it. The first will empower you; the later will destroy you. Become your own best friend and never be lonely again. - Doobie Shemer
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. - Friedrich Nietzsche
How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you? - Janet Dunnagan
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 man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Divided attention destroys best intentions. Singular focus is the friend to success. - Benjamin Lotter
There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential. - J.R. Young
If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead. - Santosh Kalwar
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. - Saadi
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. - Saadi
Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend. - Michael Bassey Johnson
you brought other people close. look at me, i am still the same i was before ; having just two best friends in my case.and you are not happy with me. you hold grudges. So then free yourself. Remove this tag of best friend and feel free. - shivangi lavaniya
I always thought loving someone is the greatest feeling, but I realized that loving a friend is even better. We lose people we love but we never lose true friends. True Friendship is something which happens 24/7, no special day is needed to celebrate that feeling. Anywayz happy Friendship Day !! - KakkZ
the world feel empty without a best friend .true friends no doubt are rare in this world - nimra
For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can’t beat the support and encouragement of a friend. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson
The best friend you will ever find is you. You must love yourself with joy to fill your heart with bliss and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger. - Randy K. Milholland
A disloyal friend is no friend. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love. - Kamand Kojouri
Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.Our behavior, attitude & approach makes them become either one. - Moses Tiko Lungu
Who, however, is in doubt ‘and’ awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn’t believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mŷthos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.’ (’s Metaphysics: Book I. Part II) - Aristotle
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. - Scandinavian Proverb
With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend. - Debasish Mridha
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic. - Charles de Lint
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one. - Clarence Darrow
If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred. - Michael Bassey Johnson
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. - Diane Von Furstenberg
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse. - Henry David Thoreau
If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111] - Edward T. Welch
Sometimes being a good friend means being harsh.
If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest. - Amit Kalantri
Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked. - Shannon L. Alder
A friend once said his father use to say "I don't want to be a millionaire I just want to live like one" if we could all be so lucky. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me - Ray Lamontagne
Never say anything about someone which, if called to testify, you are unable to repeat to the person's hearing or the hearing of the person's close friend. This will save you a lot of trouble in life. - Chikamso Efobi
Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing an elegant gown, once betrayed the string or needle breaks and you gonna need to replace them.The relationship will go on but it will never have the same treatment. - Bradley B. Dalina
A friend is a mirror. You unknowingly see yourself in him or her. - Debasish Mridha
I have a best friend and he is me. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Knowledge is a deadly friend when no-one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.
A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need. - Debasish Mridha
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. - Henry David Thoreau
Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together. - Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake
Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored. - Amit Kalantri
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot
Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zoo. It’s a ridiculous endeavor and has a low probability of success, but most importantly, it is way easier if you’re with a friend. - Amy Poehler
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,Student of our sweet English tongue,Read out my words at night, alone:I was a poet, I was young.Since I can never see your face,And never shake you by the hand,I send my soul through time and spaceTo greet you. You will understand. - James Elroy Flecker
We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion. - Dean Koontz
A friend is a bird who can understand you and sing along with you even when you lose your voice. - Debasish Mridha
She was supportive, didn’t pry or expect anything from me, and sensed when I needed my space. If she were a guy, I’d probably date her. Or, if I were a lesbian. And if she were a lesbian. I guess we’d both have to be lesbians for that to work. Regardless, she made a pretty great friend. - Temple West
A friend can give you the freedom to think differently. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness. - Debasish Mridha
A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger. - Debasish Mridha
The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don’t worry girls, I hit him. - Ben Mitchell
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves. - Diego Rivera
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - Unknown
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. - Katharine Butler Hathaway
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back - Blaise Pascal
Be your own best friend and unlock the fountain of beauty. - Debasish Mridha
Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings. - Thomas More
An enemy of today is a friend of tomorrow - Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare
A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome. - Tina Samples
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. - Edith Wharton
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. - Homer
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. - John F. Kennedy
Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger. - Debasish Mridha
You do so much for me, my friend. I am truly blessed to have the friendship of someone as amazing as you. You are part of my life. - Auliq Ice
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you. - Milan Kundera
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. - Lois Wyse
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
Music can change our feelings, but a Lover or Friend can change all in us. - Jan Jansen
You are my friend because I saw my ability to increase my knowledge around you. - Unarine Ramaru
Sometimes living in the shadows is the only thing you can do to help a friend. Dont worry when the sun shines people will see you were always there to guide them through the pain. - Royal Cromwell
If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there. - Debasish Mridha
You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it instead as the hand of a friend, pressing you down to the ground on which it is safe to stand? - Parker J. Palmer
Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour 'em too much, you make an enemy. - Huseyn Raza
A good friend is a healing friend. - A.D. Posey
There’s randomness and there’s the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it big. More it happens, more is our guy forced to believe in luck. Decades, my friend, you know what that does to a man. - Daya Kudari
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us. - C.S. Lewis
A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with. - Karen Salmansohn
In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend! - Bob Marley
The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush. - L.J. Smith
Good science is always humanity’s best friend! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. - Marcel Achard
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies. - Gore Vidal
Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Procrastination is the best friend of depression. - Debasish Mridha
A friend is a present you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend will never do match-making if they dont like the person that makes their friend Happy - chime
A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days. - Debasish Mridha
When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity. - Joseph Smith Jr.
LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician. - Ambrose Bierce
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend-and he's a priest. - Erma Bombeck
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. - Cuban Proverb
A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy. - Erol Ozan
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth? - Morrissey
I am grateful for the magic, mystery and majesty of nature my loyal friend and companion always there, welcoming and waiting for me to come; to be healed. - Tom North
The importance of friends few people would be able to recognize some friend comes in our life readily and consequently they goes but life doesn't stop for anyone but only one thing remains that is their memories which cannot be wipe out as you guys always remain in my heart and we are the best - Avinash Advani
Darkness is my friend, and my biggest enemy" Temporary dark and deep - JIGSAW PUZZLE
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - Gloria Naylor
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. - Steve Irwin
An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point. - Laura Moncur
I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end. - Ewan McGregor
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception; just a friend or something else…perhaps it was time to find out. - Melanie Cusick-Jones
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate and quickly. - Robert A. Heinlein
You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his nose?" and your honest response is "What wart?". You see true friends accept you for what you are, wart and all. - Jeffrey Michael
How should they know? I can't revealto a single friend what my soul conceals,whom I'm in love with or what I believe -my dreams, my thoughts - or why I grieve. - Hristo Botev
Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing a an elegant gown, once betrayed the string or needle breaks and gonna need to replace them.The relationship will go on but it will never have the same treatment. - Bradley B. Dalina
Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit. - Asa Don Brown
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. - Mark Twain
Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. - Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. - Marian Anderson
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. - Cicero
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. Its's what you do with what you have left.
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. - Gore Vidal
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.
Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. - Henry Enfield Roscoe
Attaining bliss can take lifetimes, or one can simply choose to experience it in their deepest dreams. Sleep well my friend, as dreams are vehicles that can quickly take you to the awareness that you call Nirvana - Gary Hopkins
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. - Sir Francis Bacon
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln
A good friend will fit you like ring to finger. - Venezuelan Proverb
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace. - Voltaire
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses S. Grant
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust. - David Shore
A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said. - Brian Andreas
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind. - Winston S. Churchill
The Bible says that to have a friend we must show ourselves friendly. To that, I say, Amen. - Toni Sorenson
Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend. - H.W. Brands
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. - Douglas Pagels
Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear. - Kung Fu Panda
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine,How first you knew me in a book I wrote,How first you loved me for a written line.... - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
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. - Anaïs Nin
Why does it matter what I own,how I look, what I wear,if I don't help out a friend in need,if I've forgotten to love and care. - Abhishek Sainani
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security. - Elisabeth Elliot
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. - Barbara Kingsolver
Loneliness is my worst enemy, but in the end he's usually my only real friend. - Dave Guerrero
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.
While one can love an irresponsible friend or a person with character flaws, alliances are built on respect, the responsibilities which arise out of that and knowing that together we can be stronger. - Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"
Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement. - Terry Pratchett
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend. - Stephen Richards
I have people I call friends; but how many will be there till the end?When death comes knocking at my door; will there be someone there I can call my friend? - Jordan Hoechlin
Most laws only exist if people believe in them. That's why the mass media has to propagate them. If you are wise enough, join the police and ignore unfair laws. Be the friend and helper instead and thereby increase the reputation of the police. - L.H.
The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall. - Tommy Cotton
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. - Bible
No man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson
You're the best gay friend I've ever had! - America talking to France
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer. - Jerry N. Uelsmann
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. - Thomas Fuller
The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend. - Anne Frank
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. - Erma Bombeck
Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.
Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey. - Luellen Hoffman
Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. - Johnny Depp
Oh, pish," Penelope said. "Anyone can fly. Anyone with a friend. - Gemma T. Leslie
The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared. - C.S. Lewis
... If I wanna shit I am going to buy it from the shop... what I need now is a friend on which I can count on... you know the drill. - Deyth Banger
The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him. - Jacob M. Appel
Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy. - Mehmet Murat ildan
You see a dead enemy soldier and you say, At least it wasn’t one of ours. You see a dead American soldier—one of your own—and you say, At least it wasn’t me. You lose a friend and you say, To hell with this. Get me out of here. - Donald Malarkey
A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away. - Shannon L. Alder
A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. 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 takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving. - Matt Labash
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author. - Katherine Mansfield
Anybody can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan. - Sarah Mylnowski
As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. - Sharon Salzberg
A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fearing. - Debasish Mridha
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money. - Quentin R. Bufogle
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive. - Michael Bassey Johnson
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. - Paul Sweeney
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. - William Shakespeare
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality. - Arnold Bennett
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... The people who give you their food give you their heart.
Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite. - Veronica Roth
Be good to your work, your word, and your friend. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is my only love and my eternal friend. - Debasish Mridha
It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living. - C.J. Tulli
Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself. - A Gentlemen
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. - The Talmud
Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever. - Shannon L. Alder
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free. - Mark Twain
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. - Toni Morrison
Never give a sucker an even break, but don't cheat a friend. - Cary Grant Mr. Lucky
There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. - Emo Phillips
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! - Anaïs Nin
a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinder person because of it... - Kate Mullane Robertson
Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, Would I want to be my friend??? - Ted Rubin
Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests. - Nina Guilbeau
Eyes are my best friend and I trust them, cuz they never lie to me - Sotero M Lopez II
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry. - Mac MacKenzie
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see. - Doris Lessing
No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees. - Carole Borges
There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves. - Laura Moncur
There is no such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood-stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered. - Abhijit Naskar
It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend. - John Paul Warren
On going to war over religion: You're basically killing each other to prove who's got the better imaginary friend.
Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend. - Thomas Aquinas
Do not ignore your best friend because some other friend hurt you. - Debasish Mridha
When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time. - Lynette Mather
If you build the faith to trust a friend as God, then your heart can never be broken. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. - Aristotle
A dog is the most joyful friend that you can have. - Debasish Mridha
When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern. - Adrianne Marcus
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. - Shannon L. Alder
We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with. - Debasish Mridha
When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone - Misti Hemlock
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more. - Jean De la Fontaine
Every new friend is a new journey through a brand new road toward a brand new mysterious heart. - Debasish Mridha
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
Best friend is like a pen and we're the paper. We'll not complete without their ink - Lucy 'Aisy
A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle
A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you. - Brian Spellman
The best friend you can have, is one who is there always for you.If lucky you have one or two human onces but even more the one between covers a book, which will never hurt,insult or betray you and always there for you to be. - Miroslava Rozman Novakovic
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allan Poe
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
SOMETIMES PEOPLES THAT YOU DONT CONSIDER AS FRIENDS AS YOUR FRIENDS ARE REALLY YOUR FRIEND. - LEILANI
The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results. - Orrin Woodward
My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep. - Nicholaa Spencer
The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you make the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process. - Shannon L. Alder
A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps. - Auliq Ice
A good friend enjoys with you, a best friend cries with you. - Debasish Mridha
Where there is wisdom there is life,and where there is evil there is death.Folly is your enemy and so are fools;wisdom is your friend and so are the wise. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this. - Victor Devlin
Hope is a better friend than despair. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver. - Patricia C. Wrede
A best friend will stand beside you when other will not. - Santonu Kumar Dhar
Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all. - Donna Lynn Hope
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. - Herman Melville
When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life. - Winston S. Churchill
To be able to stay beside a beloved one is the special privilege of a friend. - Nakamura Shungiku
what makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions? - Usman Iqbal
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. - Mark Twain
Why you should fear of being abandoned by friends who 'hypocritical'. While the around you have a friend who 'sincerely'. - Intan Hartiwan
...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place. - Terry Goodkind
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. - Elbert Hubbard
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher
When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries? - Israelmore Ayivor
If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror. - German Proverb
Your mind is your biggest enemy and your dearest friend. - Debasish Mridha
I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If that meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry; I was prepared to do it and to do it with dignity. - Jessica Thompson
I AM A GIRL WHO DARE,A CITIZEN WHO IS AWARE,DAUGHTER WHO PRAYER,SISTER WHO CARE,A FRIEND WHO SHARE,MIXTURE LIKE AIR,A DIAMOND SO RARE. - merlin8thomas
The good man is the friend of all living things. - Mahatma Gandhi
Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman, my mistress, my friend, my all. Her service was my duty - her pain, my suffering - her relief, my hope - her anger, my punishment - her regard, my reward. - Charlotte Brontë
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is a reflection of yourself. - Debasish Mridha
I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi") - Rikki Ducornet
Fighting with the pain I made him my friend. - Tanmaya Guru
A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it. - Greg Behrendt
Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something. - Donna Lynn Hope
For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it. - Andre Agassi
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend - William Blake
We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope. - Nur Bedeir
This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. - Kurt Vonnegut
Who can find a faithful friend? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values. - Justin Podur
Life without you? Actually I can’t imagine what it would be, because you are always with me, you’re like my guardian angel and above all a very fun and responsible friend. I love you. - Auliq Ice
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - Gloria Naylor
A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with. - Unarine Ramaru
There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau
Look here, said Will. When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to keep his friendship I tell him his idea isfine and go ahead. But I like you and you’re a friend of my family, so I’m going to stick my neck out. - John Steinbeck
Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise. - Rett MacPherson
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. - Publilius Syrus
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.and also my friend i learned this To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers like u it is a story book. - Sean Davz
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky. - S.E. Hinton
A fake friend is someone that ridicules your feelings, steps on your emotions and gossips about you behind your back - Karon Waddell
It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers, - Hayley Williams
She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy - Haidji
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
A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration. - Toni Sorenson
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you. - Mark Twain
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. - Peter McWilliams
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.
You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. - Mary Shelley
You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself. - Toni Sorenson
Have you ever thought your friend or loved one had issues and you kept praying for God to change them? Have you ever thought it could be you just need to change your attitude? - Amanda Penland
You can rely on a stick, but not on a faithless friend. - Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
If a friend says - I'm Fine - they don't mean it, but if you're a real friend, then you wouldn't mind spending a few more minutes with them. - BlackStar103
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say. - Leonard Cohen
The best game ever played was in Monday 3/21/2016, 2 games were played for 40 minutes class sport and in both I win and I and my friend we were going on the 3 game, but unfortunately we didn't finished it. But from here it can be see that I'm the winner! - Deyth Banger
A foe to God was never true friend to man - Edward Young
We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right. - Richard Rohr
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing. - Hermann Hesse
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn Abi Talib
A true friend has a habit of talking behind your back good things about you. - Tareq ragheb
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. - Chilo
I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear. - George Bernard Shaw
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.Rely on your Self; self-reliance - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you. - Lauryn Hill
I never said you were my friend. I just didn't have the guts to tell you to leave. - Kris Harte
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. - Douglas Pagels
A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan. - Malcolm X
She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
You are to weak you need a prowl to protect you... I mean that A Prowl must be your friend (get it?? Prowl film!) - Deyth Banger
Strangers will show you the wayBut a true friend will escort you,to your destination.1st November, 2006 - Tushar Mangl
My shadow serves as the friend I crave. - Anna Akhmatova
Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend. - Olaotan Fawehinmi
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? - Lemmy Kilmister
I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect. - Richard M Stallman
Meditation, prayer and positive thinking are a great combination for making your mind your best friend. - Rishika Sharma
Our friend has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and is his prophet. Wolfgang Pauli - Dirac
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds, which hardly any later friend can obtain. ~ Frankestein - Marry Shelly
Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything! - Stephen Richards
A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Some of my friends are not being a friend of me... - Jeevagan Nagarajan
Live like the universe is your beloved home, love like everyone is your closest friend. - Debasish Mridha
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last. - Khaled Hosseini
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, ."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, . - George Bernard Shaw
The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend - Ann Kaiser Stearns
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
It is so common amongst the common people of an ordinary mind to find own selfish desire as dream and such person often mistakes crowd around oneself as own friend. - Anuj Somany
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
I value the friend, who for me finds time on their calendar but I cherish the friend who for me, does not consult their calendar.
I share my happiness and sorrowCos I know for once there will be no tomorrowIf I wish to live in your memoriesI too have to be there to share your worriesSpeak up to your friend, am just a call away - Prashant Balan
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!! - Sandra Chami Kassis
Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love. - Richelle E. Goodrich
A friend is someone who accepts you no matter where you are. - Debasish Mridha
the man's best friend is his friend's dog. - Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else. - Steven Cuoco
My friend, you thought you lost Him;that all your life you've been separated from Him.Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,and haven't searched within your own house. - Jalaluddin Rumi
A good friend will bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'damn, we fucked up'. - Rotten eCards
There is no pain but to genuinely hurt a friend. - John Demko
And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. - Elie Wiesel
If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.
A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you’re wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs. - Debasish Mridha
Instead of caring for your headache, you are buying medicine for your friend. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours. - Shannon L. Alder
I’m afraid, my blue-skinned friend - that matters of religion are absolute. True believers cannot be reasoned with. You either agree with their beliefs or you accept that you will be in eternal conflict with them.’"~Saul KarzaDeathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage - Martyn Stanley
A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Anonymous
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. - Albert Camus
The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful. - Stacey Culpepper
If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for? - Justin Taylor
the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend. - George Gordon Byron
No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend. - Auliq Ice
A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dance in the rain, follow the path of lovely lanes, you are what you always wanted to be, so chill out, dear friend! - Santosh Kalwar
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck
The stitch ripper is your friend. Be one with the stitch ripper... - Jeanette Watts
We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip. - Crestless Wave
Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first. - Isman H. Suryaman
Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors. - Arthur Conan Doyle
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. - Groucho Marx
All the luxuries you name I have, still the peace I do not get.One day, my friend called me off, and I get the world to which I belong. - Swati Tyagi
I ain't got no money, I ain't got no car to take you on a date, I can't even buy you flowers, but together we'll be the perfect friend. - Genereux Philip
He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you. - Debasish Mridha
Then let's cheat god!!!!!Let's cut the cycle of Rebirth, let's Distort Nature!!The Himan technique that challenges the second law of thermodynamicts head on!!!!Thai is know as Medicine!!!!!As if i'd give my precious friend away to some god!!! - Syun Matsuena
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. - John Leonard
Even though everybody hates you, you'll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those who hate you. - Auliq Ice
If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while. - Tom Lehrer
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 - Henry David Thoreau
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. - Georgia O'Keeffe
By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy. - Christine de Pizan
Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend. - Michael Bassey Johnson
To be a best friend, the best word to live by is reciprocity. - Debasish Mridha
The truth of the matter is, the soul is a monstrous beast. The heart a most unwieldy and a fair weather friend. Why else woud ribs be cages - Anonymous
I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me. - Moon Unit Zappa
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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 success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams
A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories. - Eraldo Banovac
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' - Earl Warren
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend. - George Shelley
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune. - Swedish Proverb
The heartache of your brother and your best friend? I mean, Hayes if it's not your business, then whose business is it? - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre. - Rusty solomon
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. - Linda Grayson
Be true to your word and your work and your friend. - John Boyle O'Reilly
Friend of everyone is friend of none. - Miit Anmol
Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others. - Shannon L. Alder
After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again. - Mark W. Boyer
Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face. - Xena Thornton
Helping a parent makes you their child, helping a sibling makes you a brother or a sister, helping a friend makes you a good friend, but helping a stranger; that is what makes you human - Evy Michaels
Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret. - Ellen J. Barrier
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. - Mortimer J. Adler
When you find a best friend, you become two flowers blooming from the same bud. - Debasish Mridha
By chance we met, by choice we become friend - Millie Huang
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- - Samuel McChord Crothers
Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it. - Raven Symone
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought. - Alan Jacobs
There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart. - Debasish Mridha
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur - Isabelle Hardesty
Every new friend, in your life is 1% success. - Deyth Banger
A friend in deed is a friend indeed. - Ashok Kallarakkal
Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy. - Erol Ozan
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
Troubles often decides your deepest friends,but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble. - Bradley B. Dalina
Technology is your friend... When it works. - Jack Wynn
You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard - from BRIGGEN) - Ann B. Keller
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results. - Kia Carrington-Russell
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. - Jean de La Fontaine
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. - Ludwig van Beethoven
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. - Steven Wright
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia
Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off? - Alice Munro
Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity. - Debasish Mridha
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. - L.M. Montgomery
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones
A good friend of my son's is a son to me. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy. - Matshona Dhliwayo
More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend - William Feather
Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. - Hayao Miyazaki
A friend in deed is desirable. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I've said my friend, not once, but twice, never trust a preety girl cause darkness waits a mile behind her smile!! - Prashant Dev
If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend! - Elizabeth George
When life gives up on you, know that your best friend will always be there. - TheKatAttack
There's that moment every day when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed you are to winning? How committed you are to being a good friend? To being successful? - Ebelsain Villegas
A friend who shares is a friend who cares. - American proverb.
when you have no spirit to seize the day, find it behind the music, between the flowing leaves, beneath the sun rays, and just within yourself. Talk to yourself, be the best friend for yourself, and do not hesitate to ask God help - Maria Magdalena
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. - Seneca
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. - Solon
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Boldness be my friend. - William Shakespeare
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. - Mark Twain
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend. - Paul Smith
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. - Shel Silverstein
The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend. - Ellen J. Barrier
I have to be honest he was more than a friend to me, I don't know why, but I found myself having feelings for him.~once again...life goes on~ - Rim Ibrahim
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. - Selwyn Champion
If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich. - Michelle Kwan
Let's be friends before lovers, don't ask to be my friend after you've broken my heart. - Jasmine Sandozz
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - E.W. Howe
The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me. - M.B. Dallocchio
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Cicero
A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world. - Kate Clinton
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. - Lao Tzu
Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty] - Quintus Ennius
Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed. Judy likes her more now that she is depressed and feels unmotivated in life. Judy feels unmotivated in life. - Ellen Kennedy
Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living. - Debasish Mridha
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about. - William Hazlitt
I’m afraid, my blue-skinned friend - that matters of religion are absolute. True believers cannot be reasoned with. You either agree with their beliefs or you accept that you will be in eternal conflict with them.(Deathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage) - Martyn Stanley
I'm on a roller coaster which only goes up my friend - Augustus Waters The Fault in Our Stars
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that. - J.I. Packer
If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought intoevery-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake, it wasrather the glitter of the pieces of a broken mirror, which confusesand bewilders. - Elizabeth Gaskell
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay. - Mehmet Murat ildan
A friend is a bird who can sing along with the songs of your heart. - Debasish Mridha
Loneliness is remedied at times with the company of a friend and at other times with the company of oneself. - Patricia Selbert
The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness. - Debasish Mridha
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. - Abraham Lincoln
a good friendship is beneficial to both, a bought friend is a free enemy that no one can afford. - Antwine Huffman
Like go for a walk, say a little prayerTake a deep breath of mountain airPut on my glove and play some catchIt's time that I make time for thatWade the shore and cast a lineLook up a long lost friend of mineSit on the porch and give my girl a kissStart livin', that's the next thing on my list. - Toby Keith
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh my beloved friend! In your mirror, I see my reflection again and again. - Debasish Mridha
First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery. - Michael Bassey Johnson
To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend. - Barbara Shook Hazen
I’d love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I’m ranked, which is below him. - Donna Lynn Hope
A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! - Israelmore Ayivor
I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. - Helen Keller
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. - Mary Renault
A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth. - Tonny K. Brown
When you truly love someone, you can’t just be their friend. - Berry Quotes
When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it. - Debasish Mridha
The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. - E.M. Forster
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. - George Santayana
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. - George Bernard Shaw
So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out. - Derek Landy
If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy. - Kurt Vonnegut
If you won't be my friend, you'll regret being my enemy - Marie Rutkoski
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably - William Penn
Makebelieve is a writer's best friend. - Solange nicole
A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself :) - Mona Hanie
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. - Thomas Fuller
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. - Charles Caleb Colton
Why have you been my friend when I didn’t deserve friendship? Because friendship isn’t something anyone deserves…it’s just one of those blessings of life, you can’t earn…love has no price tag. - Toni Sorenson
A friend is a second self. - Aristotle
Meeting you was fate..Becoming your friend was a choice..But falling in love with you I had no control over. - Teresa Conroy
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind. - Debasish Mridha
I may be alone, but I am never lonely. I am always with my best friend, and that is me. - Debasish Mridha
The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend. - John Maxwell
When you become a raindrop in your mind Thunder is the closest friend you may find Wind lashed trees, dark clouds, lightning or the dust Everything you will bear once you adjust - Munia Khan
If you are not more alive when in love then you my friend are in love with the wrong one. - Nikki Rowe
Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend. - Debasish Mridha
Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws. - Ogwo David Emenike
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Nigerian Proverb
A true friend accepts you as you are. - Debasish Mridha
You're your best friend and worst enemy. - Debasish Mridha
Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone. - Jalaluddin Rumi
To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak. - Jon Stewart
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? - Thomas à Kempis
When you have everything in life, you have friends, when you have nothing, you have true friends. The fact that somebody is close to you does mean they are your friend. Be wise! - Oscar Bimpong
A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you.It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself - Anonymous
It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend. - Luis Marques
If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime,anywhere - Rahul Bodkhe
Never believe you have a Spouse or a Friend until problems come. - Auliq-Ice
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life! - Mehmet Murat ildan
He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir--- - Edouard Manet
Well, once again, my friend we find that science is a two-headed beast. One head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern conveniences... but the other head of science is bad! Oh, beware the other head of science, Arthur, it bites! - The Tick
I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend. - Nuno Roque
I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals."The Panopticon - Jenn Fagan
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. - Toni Morrison
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. - Dave Kellett
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend. - Bruce Lee
The presence of a good friend brings big smiles. - Debasish Mridha
A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend. - Debasish Mridha
It’s traumatizing to think that a best friend could become just a friend. That’s because there is virtually no difference between an acquaintance and a friend. But the gulf between a friend and a best friend is enormous and profound. - Mindy Kaling
Hey, GreenHollyWood the mistake was mine that I added you as a friend... I thought that you are my friend... but your irony doesn't end. - Deyth Banger
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself - Frances Ward Weller
Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship. - Sharvani Akula
However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen. - Laura Moncur
A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out. - Anthony Liccione
I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad - Theognis
The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert
The Boy looked at him for a long time before responding. Well, as long as you’re my friend, I’ll never ignore you, he said with conviction. I know what it’s like to be invisible to other people. - Mike Resnick
I take it, though,...given the utter lack of change in your demeanor and nearly radiating I-just-slaughtered-a -bunch-of-infant-forest-animals guilt coming from your general direction...the exchange with your female friend went something a trifle short of fantastic. - Anihyr Moonstar
Do not support your friend in his sin today, for tomorrow he is getting converted and he will a shame you. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend. - Ambrose Bierce
He's a fine friend. He stabs you in the front. - Leonard Louis Levinson
The best friend you will ever find is you. Love yourself with joy and fill your heart with bliss and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my bed. As the years passed by, I watched it slowly transforming into a work of art which still lives above my head. And that my friend, is truly living art. - Shawn Lukas
A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you. - Debasish Mridha
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. - Erma Bombeck
Patience, my friend; Once again, I say, Patience. In an era 'plagued' with speed, doggedness of character and drudgery of persistence is the only guarantee to mastery. - Ufuoma Apoki
Love and take care of yourself because you are your best friend, and you have to live with yourself rest of the life. - Debasish Mridha
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. - Titus Maccius Plautus
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. - Edgar Allan Poe
Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work; Smart Work becomes Easy Work. - Vid Lamonte' Buggs Jr.
Sometimes I think, What a man gonna do with all this media publicity, Photos in newspapers, photography in and among the industry, references and contacts when he cannot help a friend, when he has no family life, and not Even a dog to welcome him after work hours! - Himmilicious
(A point of view of a stupidy of mankind)...Hey... did you check out the book by Stephen King in 7 June published??... (I was talking to one friend if I can put him as a friend...)The teacher says "Stop with this books.."... pff I said once not twice, why to stop? - Deyth Banger
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. - Groucho Marx
Ish #211 "Your child is your parental obligation, not friend. - Regina Griffin
When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her. - John Maxwell
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. - Unknown
BACK, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity. - Ambrose Bierce
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works. - Colleen Wainwright
It doesn't matter when, how old am I and how. When the first robot is build and it can be like a human which will mean can think, and communicate I will go and buy it. Because this will be the best friend ever will have and ever had! - Deyth Banger
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. - Robert Brault
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses. - Katherine Mansfield
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. - Erica Jong
Age is a cruel monster and time is no friend - Oluseyi Akinbami
lonelyness is the only friend that last forever than having friendship among people - ravishangaran
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