quotes about True Friend
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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
-- Abraham Flexner -
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
-- Aimee TeegardenSource : "Selena Gomez On Dating: 'I’m Always Going To Be The Girl You Take Home To Your Parents'". Teen Vogue Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.
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A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.
-- Alan Carr -
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
-- Alexander Pope -
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.
-- Andrea CamilleriSource : Andrea Camilleri (2012). “Inspector Montalbano: The first three novels in the series”, p.449, Pan Macmillan
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
-- Anne Lamott -
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
-- Anne Lamott -
A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart.
-- Anuj -
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The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
-- Ariana Grande -
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
-- Aristotle -
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
-- Aristotle -
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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
-- Aristotle -
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
-- Arnold Bennett -
My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
True friends are families which you can select.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
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True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.
-- August von Platen-Hallermunde -
Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.
-- Barbara HollandSource : Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”
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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 WhichcoteSource : Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.145
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
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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 LaHayeSource : Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers
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How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.
-- Bryan Davis -
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.
-- C. S. Lewis -
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
-- Caleb Carr -
Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
-- CatilineSource : "Sallust: The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha". Book by Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Book XX, part 4, 2013.
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True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.
-- Cecilia Dart-Thornton -
When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.
-- Cesar Millan -
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Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul
-- Chaim PotokSource : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
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Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.
-- Chaim Potok -
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
-- Charles Alexander EastmanSource : Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
-- Charles Kingsley -
I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.
-- Cher LloydSource : "Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke'". Interview With Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.
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There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
-- Connie Francis -
Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.
-- Cressida Cowell -
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.
-- Dean KoontzSource : Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.63, Hachette UK
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Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.
-- Denise Martin -
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
-- Diego BonetaSource : Source: collider.com
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I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.
-- Dorothy Allison -
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
-- Doug Larson -
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
-- E. B. White -
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
-- E. B. White -
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True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
-- Edna Buchanan -
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
-- Epictetus -
This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
-- Farid al-Din Attar -
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
-- Francis BaconSource : Novum Organum (1620).
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Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
-- Franz Schubert -
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
-- George EliotSource : George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社
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A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.
-- Gideon LevySource : "Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel - and the Most Heroic". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.
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The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.
-- Harriet Lerner -
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When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
-- Helen Steiner RiceSource : Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.45, Revell
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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
-- Ian SomerhalderSource : FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jan 21, 2015
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It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.
-- Ike Barinholtz -
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
-- Isaac Asimov -
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
-- Jacqueline Carey -
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
-- James HowellSource : James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”
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Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
-- Jay Leno -
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You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who’s still there.
-- Jeffree Star -
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
-- Jennifer Wilson -
Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.
-- Joan Rivers -
The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.
-- John Cassian -
True Friends are the bacon bits In the salad bowl of life. How true I read that and straight away, My thoughts turned to you And especially today on your 60th These special wishes I send Have a really wonderful birthday My special "bacon flavored" friend
-- John Walter Bratton -
Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose.
-- Jose Marti -
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
-- Joseph Campbell -
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We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
-- Josh CharlesSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection -- a true friendship -- and the connection touches the soul completely.
-- Karen O -
A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
-- Kate MortonSource : Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.
-- Kay PanabakerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.
-- Kelly Osbourne -
I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
-- Kelly Osbourne -
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
-- Kent McCord -
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Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.
-- Kirby Larson -
Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times
-- Kobe Bryant -
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
-- Larry Flynt -
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A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.
-- Lauren Conrad -
A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.
-- Laurie Halse AndersonSource : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.
-- Lisa Scottoline -
All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
-- Lois Wyse -
Every true friend is a glimpse of God.
-- Lucy LarcomSource : Lucy Larcom (1892). “As it is in Heaven”
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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
-- M. F. K. FisherSource : M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.768, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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