Top 69 Quotes About A Stranger Friend

#1. Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.

Debasish Mridha

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Met you as a stranger
Took you as a friend
Hope we meet in Heaven
Where friendship never ends

Raheel Sharif

#6. Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life's absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.

Carol Vorvain

#7. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

Simon Cowell

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. And what's a stranger but a friend you haven't met yet?

Neil Gaiman

#11. 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

#12. Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#13. True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.

Dan Groat

#14. A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Maya Angelou

#15. 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

#16. A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.

Paul Smith

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. At one point in time, every friend was a stranger. Love changed that.

Jarrid Wilson

#21. A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger.

Debasish Mridha

#22. She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.

Nicholas Sparks

#23. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Truman Capote

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Mark Twain

#27. Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good
a mere stranger will do no harm.

Benjamin Whichcote

#28. The way I see it, a stranger feels like a stranger; a friend feels like a friend. Simple.

N.K. Jemisin

#29. 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

#30. The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

Saadi

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Tecumseh

#38. Why was it always up to her when I was her best friend and when I was just a stranger?

Juliana Romano

#39. A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet

Kirsten Beyer

#40. A stranger is just a friend you haven't met.

Roy E. Stolworthy

#41. They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

Sidney Sheldon

#42. He was looking at his friend and seeing a stranger.

Alexandra Bracken

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. To help a friend is really good. To help yourself is also really good. To help a stranger is the very best.

Art Hochberg

#47. The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger.

Hilda M. Ransome

#48. 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

#49. It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.

Avi

#50. Talk to strangers politely ... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

Israelmore Ayivor

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Consolation from a stranger is better than discouragement from a friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. 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

#57. We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

John Spence

#58. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

#59. 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

#60. He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

Louisa May Alcott

#61. Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Mark Twain

#62. I met you as a stranger. Now I have you as a friend. I hope we meet on our next walk of life where our friendship never ends.
I may not be the most important person in your life but I just hope that when you hear my name you smile and say that's my friend!!!

Taylor Swift

#63. 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

#64. Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die.

Greg Mortenson

#65. 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

#66. A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

Will Rogers

#67. 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

#68. Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.

Vicki Brown

#69. 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

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