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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Joke.
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
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Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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