A Quote by Saadi

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

Saadi

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Friend Stranger Unless

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Saadi
Iranian - Poet
1184 - 1283

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

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

Simon Cowell

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

Truman Capote

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

Anton Chekhov

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

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Deb Caletti

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

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

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

Saadi

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Billy Sunday

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.