Quotes For Bestfriend
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Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Domestic Life
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox photo

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

Alice Walker photo
Henry Ford photo
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Clive Staples Lewis photo

“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."”

The Four Loves (1960)
Context: Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."

Khalil Gibran photo

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

Sand and Foam (1926)

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variant: A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud…

William Hazlitt photo

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

" On The Conduct of Life" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/ConductLife.htm (1822), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)

Nico photo

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

Afraid

Clive Staples Lewis photo
Walter Winchell photo

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 872
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

John Wesley photo

“The best of it all is, God is with us.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

A statement among his final words, said to have been repeated two or three times, as quoted in The Living Wesley (1891) by James Harrison Rigg
Variants: The best of it is, God is with us.
Best of all, God is with us.
General sources

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

Eugene Kennedy (1928–2015) American psychologist

Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284

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“A Friend to all, is a Friend to none.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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Benjamin Franklin photo

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Jean de La Bruyère photo
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Marilyn Monroe photo
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Albert Camus photo

“Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist

Widely attributed, but likely apocryphal. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/23/friend/ Researchers have searched for this quote unsuccessfully in Camus' extant works.
Disputed