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A Friend Is Quotes

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain

Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker?
- Joe Abercrombie

Life is still as never was,
One Seems dead yet still is alive.
Man frets for things, things he can buy,
All's for sale but not life.
Life is there when a friend is there,
A friend like you worth more than life.
- Amit Abraham

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- Joseph Addison

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
- Aristotle

a friend is a second self
- Quintus Tullius Cicero

A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.
- Marvin J Ashton

Someone has said, "A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am." Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.
- Marvin J Ashton

Sitting with her on Sunday evening a wet Sunday evening the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told...
- Jane Austen

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
- Jane Austen

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
- Richard Bach

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
- Will Christopher Baer

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
- Charles M Schulz

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
- William Shakespeare

A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.
- Tonny K Brown

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
- Pearl S Buck

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
- Emily Giffin

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
- Kurt Cobain

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
- Alistair Cooke

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
- Edward Young

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
- Diogenes

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
- Frances O Roark Dowell

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
- Milan Kundera

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
- Henry Van Dyke

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

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
- Epicurus

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.
- Joseph Epstein

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
- Euripides

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.
- Garrison Keillor

...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

As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. 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 one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Bein' a friend is a heavy commitment. In a way, even more than a husband or wife.... Friendship to me means more than just somebody to talk to, or run with, or hang with.
Bein' friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together; you fight together; you die together.
- Ron Hall

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?
- J K Rowling

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
- Herodotus

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

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.
- Edward W Howe

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments what we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
- Aldous Huxley

As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments what we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
- Aldous Huxley

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
- St Jerome

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.
- Thomas S Monson

A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there.
And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.
- Jenny Lawson

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk
- E Lockhart

Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)
- Kinley Macgregor

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
- Dave Matthews

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
- Jim Morrison

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
- Samuel Rutherford

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
- William Shenstone

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
- Sophocles

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
- Aaron Sorkin

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
- Robert Southey

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
- Pierre Trudeau

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words
- Shania Twain

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
- Bern Williams

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

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