quotes 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 -
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The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
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Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
-- Augustus Hare -
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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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.
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A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
-- Bil Keane -
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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.
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
-- Charles PeguySource : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.
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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 -
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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 StoreySource : "Home".
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
-- E. M. ForsterSource : E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
-- Eleanor Mondale -
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
-- EuripidesSource : Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
-- Francesco GuicciardiniSource : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
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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 -
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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.
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But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
-- Jackson BrowneSource : Song: The Late Show, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974
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God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.
-- James Howell -
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What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
-- Jeffrey Archer -
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
-- Jim Henson -
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison -
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
-- Katherine MansfieldSource : Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford
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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
-- Khalil Gibran -
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.
-- KRS-One -
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
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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 -
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If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
-- Mary Browne -
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
-- Ming-Dao Deng -
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
-- Pietro AretinoSource : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
-- Plautus -
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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 -
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
-- Richard Bach -
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
-- Richard Bach -
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
-- Robert Breault -
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
-- Robert Breault -
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
-- Samuel PepysSource : Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press
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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
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To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.
-- Suzanne MassieSource : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
-- Toni Morrison -
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf -
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
-- Voltaire -
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
-- William Butler Yeats -
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I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
-- William Shakespeare -
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
-- John Boyle O'ReillySource : John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
A real friend's got your back, while the fake ones are sticking knives in it.
-- Unknown