Quotes and Sayings About Real Friends
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
-- Alice Miller -
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
-- Aristotle -
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
-- Augustus Hare -
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
To keep is more important than to make friends.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
-- Bil Keane -
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
-- Charles Peguy -
Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
-- Clarence Day -
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
-- Dagobert D. Runes -
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
-- David Storey -
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
-- E. M. Forster -
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
-- Eleanor Mondale -
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
-- Euripides -
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
-- Francis Bacon -
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
-- Giotto di Bondone -
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
-- Helen Keller -
Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
-- Henry Clay Trumbull -
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
-- Henry David Thoreau -
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
-- Henry David Thoreau