Best Friend Wisdom

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Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as… — Pocahontas
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a… — Arnold Lobel
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out. — Mark Twain
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend. — Simon Cowell
I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog. — Alan Sugar
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. — Henry Adams
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. — Seneca the Younger
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it… — Henry David Thoreau
He makes no friend who never made a foe. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… — Charles Caleb Colton
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his. — Ambrose Bierce
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up. — Lisa Bonet
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long. — Tom Baker
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what… — Khalil Gibran
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is… — Andrew Carnegie
The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes… — Rajneesh
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. — Robert Breault
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's. — Robert Breault
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent. — Charles Barkley
I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone. — Leonardo DiCaprio
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. — Henry Vaughan

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