Top 100 A Friend Is Quotes
#1. Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
Milan Kundera
#2. A friend is a companion for the journey,
never a means to our own.
What we take we take together,
the joy we reap, we have sown.
Tom Althouse
#3. When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#4. One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Aldous Huxley
#6. 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
#7. A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane
#8. A friend is a person who likes you for what you are, in spite of all your faults, all your shortcomings.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#9. A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Pam Brown
#10. 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
#11. A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.
Anne Beatts
#12. A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
Lucy Larcom
#13. To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Seneca The Younger
#14. Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.
Jon Meacham
#15. The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
Pierre Trudeau
#16. To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
Epicurus
#18. A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
Simon Sinek
#19. Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]
George Herbert
#20. A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.
Debasish Mridha
#21. A friend is someone who accepts you no matter where you are.
Debasish Mridha
#22. A friend is someone who wishes what is good for the other.
John O'Donohue
#23. Helping a friend is helping yourself. If you don't help today, you will not be helped tomorrow.
Vinita Kinra
#24. A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.
Debasish Mridha
#25. 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.
#26. A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome
#28. A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.
Debasish Mridha
#29. A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
Sophie Irene Loeb
#30. I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.
Mariella Frostrup
#31. I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
Nick Flynn
#32. A friend is a mirror. You unknowingly see yourself in him or her.
Debasish Mridha
#33. But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.
John Heywood
#34. A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.
John O'Donohue
#35. Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace.
Gavriel Savit
#36. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
Gregory David Roberts
#38. A friend is he who never minds; those who mind are never your friends.
Debasish Mridha
#39. A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#40. A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#41. 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
#42. I don't cook for myself. I eat every meal out. I'm fed by others. I think it's a kind of social thing. I work collaboratively with others. A meal with a friend is my ultimate thing.
Micah Lexier
#43. It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
Fran Lebowitz
#44. A FRIEND Is a wellspring of understanding. A catch basin for grimy little secrets that can scarcely be voiced.
Ellen Hopkins
#46. 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
#48. A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#49. Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
Robert Breault
#50. A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.
Auliq Ice
#51. 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
#53. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Jodie Foster
#55. The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.
Agnes Sanford
#56. A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better!
Erinn Westbrook
#57. A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good.
Lois Greiman
#58. Studies show that people have no problem ignoring strangers' injuries, but when a friend is insulted, our sense of outrage is enough to overcome the inertia that usually makes protests hard to organize.
Charles Duhigg
#59. A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.
Tonny K. Brown
#61. Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.
M. Scott Peck
#62. A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you for who you are today.
Aleatha Romig
#64. A friend is someone who loves you and knows you in an equal amount.
Allia Loops
#65. Almost every man we meet requires some civility,
requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
Homer
#68. A friend is like a flower of life, it continue to make your life beautiful and happy even if you don't want it to.
Debasish Mridha
#69. 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
#70. A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..
Steve Lopez
#72. A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready to betray: a friend is someone I can betray with love.
Slavoj Zizek
#73. 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
#74. A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration.
Toni Sorenson
#75. best way to make a friend is to show interest in someone else without an agenda.
Jeff Goins
#77. A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Aleatha Romig
#78. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#79. To help a friend is really good. To help yourself is also really good. To help a stranger is the very best.
Art Hochberg
#80. A friend is a friend forever
And a good one will never leave, never
Laura Marling
#82. The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful
wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.
Owen Feltham
#83. 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
#84. A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.
Ashley Young
#85. A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes
#86. A friend is someone I complain to about my other friends.
Doug Benson
#87. 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
#88. Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph Addison
#89. She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.
Judith Pella
#90. Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
Henry Kissinger
#91. A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
Abraham Lincoln
#92. Being a friend is hard." "If it was easy, anyone could do it." "I love smart women." "Smart women love you." "I'd better go." "Call me later.
Robert Crais
#93. A friend is by definition an unpaid therapist.
Erin McCarthy
#94. A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#95. The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.
Hannah Kent
#96. A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.
Noah
#97. We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#98. I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.
Kristin Levine
#99. 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
#100. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
