Friend Quotes
8728 quotes by 4962 authors
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come…
— Saint Augustine
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in…
— Diane Ackerman
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's…
— Kevin Bacon
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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…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of…
— Francis Bacon
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to…
— Hosea Ballou
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
— Honore de Balzac
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Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it.…
— Ernie Banks
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
— Edward Abbey
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
— Henry Adams
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
— Isaac Barrow
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I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it…
— Lynda Barry
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to…
— Melody Beattie
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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
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