Top 87 A Friend Is One Who Quotes
#1. Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn Monroe
#2. 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
#3. A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Aleatha Romig
#5. A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
Sophie Irene Loeb
#6. 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
#7. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
NIkki Fuentes
#8. A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you've become, and still, gently invites you to grow. A friend loveth at all times.
Anonymous
#9. A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.
William Arthur Ward
#11. I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
Seneca.
#12. A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you've been seeking.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#13. A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.
John O'Donohue
#14. The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.' Sita
Amish Tripathi
#15. The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.
Bianca Scardoni
#16. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend's exes, for example, it's really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing.
Jillian Rose Reed
#18. Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Tom Glazer
#19. Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#20. I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.
Phyllis Diller
#21. A true friend is the one who knows
everything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelings
you woke up in them they will never forget!
Danka V.
#22. Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.
Mark Driscoll
#23. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. The woman who engaged him had no idea that her gardener was one of the most distinguished scientists in Britain until a friend came for tea one day and, looking out the window, casually asked: "My dear, why is the Nobel laureate Sir Lawrence Bragg pruning your hedges?" Late
Bill Bryson
#25. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
#27. A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler
#28. A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.
Emile Gaboriau
#29. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
America Ferrera
#31. Walking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend.
Kristen Callihan
#32. Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
Candace Bushnell
#33. There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
Edith Wharton
#34. I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.
Mitch Hedberg
#35. A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley
#36. 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
#37. By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.
Lord Byron
#38. What sort of man would you choose for yourself, Liadan?, he asked me.
One who is trustworthy, and true to himself, I answered straightaway. One who speaks his mind without fear. One who can be a friend as well as a husband. I would be contented with that.
Juliet Marillier
#39. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
Les Brown
#40. So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out.
Derek Landy
#41. To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
Plato
#42. One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
Louis L'Amour
#43. A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#44. Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.
Timothy Noah
#45. One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.
Ron Fournier
#46. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
#48. A good friend is the one who is there for you, when everyone has turn their back on you
Beta Metani'Marashi
#49. When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.
Jeffrey Deitch
#50. Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?
Alexandra Kleeman
#51. A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.
Frank A. Clark
#52. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself
Mona Hanie
#53. An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#54. Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them ... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.
Sean Covey
#55. Finding someone who thinks you're interesting enough to talk to you every day, whether they're a friend or a lover, is one of the best feelings ever.
Unknown
#56. The mind becomes a friend to the one who has control over it and an enemy to the one who is controlled by it.
Edward Viljoen
#57. A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
John Lubbock
#58. I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.
Francisco Goya
#59. You love him because this is what you do. Over and over again. You knit yourself right up into these men's lives, these men who will never ever be able to love you back, and then you wonder like a crazy person why you aren't the chosen one at the end. You have to stop doing this ...
Collier Lumpkin
#60. A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.
Elizabeth George
#61. A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out
Denis Waitley
#62. A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Arnold Bennett
#63. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#64. A good friend is the one who stand up for you and not the one who sells you out
Beta Metani'Marashi
#65. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Dan Pearce
#66. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#67. I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.
Julia Quinn
#68. A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
Garrison Keillor
#69. All that is left to one who grieves
Is convalescence. No change of heart or spiritual
Conversion, for the heart has changed
And the soul has been converted
To a thing that sees
How much it costs to lose a friend it loved.
Herbert Mason
#70. Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being.
Tahereh Mafi
#71. Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
#72. Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.
Dallin H. Oaks
#73. 'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.
Gayle Lynds
#74. No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
William, Saroyan
#75. A best friend is one who understands humour in your most weird jokes..
Himmilicious
#76. The best friend a person has," he would say at that time, "is one who has just died.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#77. No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Plato
#78. Friend is the one who showes the way and walks a piece of road with us
William Wordsworth
#79. We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.
Crestless Wave
#80. Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.
Evan Esar
#81. I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
#82. I'm always the one who doesn't have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, "So, is your friend, you know, with someone?" and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.
Elizabeth Scott
#83. Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.
Benjamin Disraeli
#84. A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation,time or location.
Ellen J. Barrier
#85. The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.
Seungsahn
#86. I've always been a huge fan of Patricia's [Rozema ], as a director and as a writer, and she's a friend. For me, Patricia is one of those people who can cross genre in a way that I think has been pretty incredible, if you look at her career and the versatility of her work.
Ellen Page
#87. Friend is a very small word,
A little sound we make,
For one who is true, one who will do,
Great deeds for friendship's sake.
Brian Jacques
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