Best Friend Quotes - Page 9

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prayer, Inspirational Life, Taken

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Success, Inspirational Love

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Sake, Should

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1879). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”

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• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Games

  'An After-Dinner Poem'

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• I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

  Kid Rock

  Cat, Good Friend, People

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Feb 29, 2016

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• A friend in power is a friend lost.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Friendship, Family

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

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• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Men, Heaven

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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• In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Misfortunes

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• It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

  John Irving

  Philosophy, Good Friend, Night

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.269, Random House

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• A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

  George Ade

  Time, Funny Friend, Useless

  George Ade (1903). “People You Know”

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• Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Political Opinions, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.117, Criss Jami

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• I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

  Brittany Snow

  Suicide, School, Good Friend

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Real Friends, Bff Forever

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Tacitus

  Worst Enemy, History, Evil

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• Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Relationship, Letting Go

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

  Lew Wallace

  Hurt, Men, Self

  Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 6, ch. 2 (1880)

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• A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

  Muhammad

  Bad Friend, Good Friend, Smell

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• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Real Friends, Good Friend

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Home, Gay, Good Friend

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• Best friends listen to what you don't say.

  Samantha Norman

  Friendship, True Friend, Good Friend

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• Hearts Live By Being Wounded

  Oscar Wilde

  Broken Heart, Losing Friends, Live By

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Girl, Sweet, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Oct 31, 2011

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