Quotes of Friend - somelinesforyou

“ A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. ”

- Doug Larson

“ My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light! ”

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

“ Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ”

- George Eliot

“ The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”

- George Canning

“ 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

“ For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ 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

“ One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one. ”

- Ann Landers

“ A friend is a present you give to yourself. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. ”

- John Keats

“ I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. ”

- George Santayana

“ A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. ”

- Donna Roberts

“ When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! ”

- Anna Letitia Barbauld

“ The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it. ”

- William Cowper

“ A friend in need is a friend indeed. ”

- Susan Ferrier

“ Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ”

- Aristotle

“ From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ”

- Charles W. Eliot

“ Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The only way to have a friend is to be one. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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