Top 72 A Stranger Is A Friend Quotes
#2. Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.
Melanie A. Gabbard
#3. It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.
Avi
#5. To help a friend is really good. To help yourself is also really good. To help a stranger is the very best.
Art Hochberg
#6. Sometimes when we least expect it, a small cross proves a lovely crown, a seemingly unimportant event becomes a lifelong experience, or a stranger becomes a friend
Louisa May Alcott
#7. Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.
Francis Quarles
#10. They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.
Sidney Sheldon
#12. Why was it always up to her when I was her best friend and when I was just a stranger?
Juliana Romano
#13. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh
#14. It was like she had dropped away for a second - my best friend, my only real friend - and in her place was a stranger. That
Lauren Oliver
#15. You can just be your self's stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
Sorin Cerin
#16. Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.
M. Scott Peck
#17. Stranger: Do you believe in Jesus, my friend?
Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you?
Toba Beta
#18. And I was next to a boy I'd started thinking of as more than a stranger, more than a friend. He was somewhere in between my future and my present, I just didn't have a word for him yet. Other than safe.
He was my safety.
He was what made me feel protected.
Rachel Higginson
#19. It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
Samuel Johnson
#20. We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.
John Spence
#21. Like most people on the planet I have experienced moments when a friend's, or just a stranger's, warm cheering up was like a gulp of oxygen essential for survival.
Sahara Sanders
#22. Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.
Vicki Brown
#23. What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.
Lewis B. Smedes
#24. A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
Will Rogers
#25. History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
Michelle Sagara West
#26. Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#27. A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.
If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn't have friends.
Montesquieu
#28. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
#29. Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. (Steven Levy)
Walter Isaacson
#30. Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias
#31. Consolation from a stranger is better than discouragement from a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. How can I make my husband's day better?" "How can I have a moment with each one of my kids?" "Where can I volunteer to ease the load of a friend or stranger?
Andy Traub
#33. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
Rumi
#34. Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. 'You are clever, O Samana,' said the Illustrious One, 'you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.
Hermann Hesse
#35. Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.
Denis Diderot
#36. There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
#37. Talk to strangers politely ... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.
Neil Gaiman
#39. you are
as fleetingly beautiful
as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks
a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood
a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.
Sanober Khan
#40. A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Maya Angelou
#41. While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger
Vernor Vinge
#42. It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.
Dan Groat
#45. He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
Tad Williams
#46. And what's a stranger but a friend you haven't met yet?
Neil Gaiman
#47. A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.
Paul Smith
#48. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.
William Shakespeare
#49. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
Simon Cowell
#50. Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life's absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.
Carol Vorvain
#51. Met you as a stranger
Took you as a friend
Hope we meet in Heaven
Where friendship never ends
Raheel Sharif
#52. My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.
Mazo De La Roche
#53. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..
Paul Theroux
#54. One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
Henry David Thoreau
#55. Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.
Debasish Mridha
#56. A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.
Donald C. Peattie
#57. Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people.
Bryce Courtenay
#58. The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
Saadi
#59. For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn't a stranger, she was Clary - his friend. His family. The girl he'd sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.
Cassandra Clare
#60. He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?
Madeline Miller
#61. The way I see it, a stranger feels like a stranger; a friend feels like a friend. Simple.
N.K. Jemisin
#62. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
Mark Twain
#63. He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.
Dorothy West
#64. The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.
Robert Scoble
#65. C'mon, friend. It's two on one. You sure don't look like you're up to those odds. (Stranger)
You can't be talking to me. I don't have prokas for friends. And I assure you I could gut you both before your stench had time to catch up to your fall. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
Truman Capote
#67. She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
Nicholas Sparks
#68. A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger.
Debasish Mridha
#69. At one point in time, every friend was a stranger. Love changed that.
Jarrid Wilson
#70. There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically. It's the only truly safe place and it can happen with a stranger or a best friend.
Natasha Lyonne
#71. I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel Gabriel, I wanted to go up to him and say, 'Hey, put that Red Bull down. You've already got wings.' My friend had to sternly remind me that he was a stranger and I did not, in fact, create him.
Alexandra Adornetto
#72. Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
