Friend In Need Quotes

• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Friendship, Meaningful

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• A friend in need is a friend indeed!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Needs, Friendship Memories

  Donald Mackintosh, Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases ... To which is added, 'The way to wealth' by Benjamin Franklin”, p.17

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• He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Needs, Prove

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1772). “Comedies of Plautus: Menaechmi. Epidicus. Mostellaria. Pseudolus”, p.115

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• To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

  Samuel Hall Lord

  Funny, Friendship, Negative

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• We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we don’t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we don’t do what they want us to do.

  Geneen Roth

  Cheer, Real, Loneliness

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• Even the strongest man needs friends.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Needs, Strongest

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• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• The best time to make friends is
  before you need them.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Best Friend

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• I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

  Andy Rooney

  Needs, Matter, Serious

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• Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Men, Friendly

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• You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

  Brian Jett

  Friendship, Stars, Shining

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• the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Friends, People, Would Be

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.391, Wildside Press LLC

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• To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Enemy, Needs

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• Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Thinking, Advice

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

  Edgar Bergen

  Needs, Wells

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• The happy man in this life needs friends.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Needs, This Life

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• Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

  Christopher Durang

  Needs, Need A Change, Nothing Ever Changes

  Christopher Durang (2013). “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• When you need a friend most is when no one is cheering.

  K. C. Jones

  Friendship, Cheer, Needs

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• You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Thinking, Needs

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• A friend in need needs a friend, indeed.

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Friends, Needs

  Karen Scalf Linamen (2002). “Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt”

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• Sail on silver girl
  Sail on by
  Your time has come to shine
  All your dreams are on their way
  See how they shine
  Oh, if you need a friend
  I'm sailing right behind.

  Paul Simon

  Girl, Dream, Shining

  "Song: 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'". 1970.

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