Friend Quotes - page 4

No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. (Groucho Marx)
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. View quote
William Hazlitt
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. View quote
Robert E. Lee
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. View quote
Alice Walker
...that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library... View quote
Aphra Behn
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. View quote
Mary Renault
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. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, "That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible." (David Spade)
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.' View quote
Earl Warren
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
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. View quote
Albert Camus
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. View quote
Bill Watterson
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
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. View quote
George MacDonald
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. View quote
Francis Bacon
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. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Jim Morrison
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. (Lloyd Bentsen)
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. View quote
Milton Friedman
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend. View quote
Bernard Kerik
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
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