Precious Friends Quotes:

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

- Herodotus

topic: Precious Possessions, Possession, Precious Friends

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

- Plutarch

topic: Friendship, Change, Real Friends, Inspiring Friends, Starting Anew

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

- Plautus

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Heaven, Bff, Being A Good Friend

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend, Songs And Friendship, Special Friend

How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

- Grace Noll Crowell

source: Grace Noll Crowell, “Thank You Friend”

topic: Thankful, Glowing, Shining, God Bless You, Precious Friends

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

topic: Two, Mind, Body, Making Friends, Bff

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Making Friends, Bff

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

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Female Friends

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, Friendship, Happiness, Benevolent, Not Friends

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Life Love And Friendship

There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.

- Diana Dors

topic: Real, Feelings, World, Precious Friends

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

- Helen Keller

topic: Friendship, Loneliness, Real Friends, Making Friends, Bff

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Winchell

source: Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

topic: Friendship, Real, World, Making Friends, New Friendship

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Friendship, Love You, Optimistic, Inspirational Friendship, One Friend

Real friends stab you in the front.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Real, Real Friends, Stabbing, Backstabbing, Who Your Real Friends Are

True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love, Stabbing, Inspirational Friendship

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

topic: Friendship, Wisdom, Clever, Sounds Of Silence, Meaningful Friendship

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

- Len Wein

source: "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Patience, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Clever, Friends And Enemies, Precious Friends

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

- Eustache Deschamps

topic: Friendship, Making Friends, Bff, Lasting Friendship, Friends Forever

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

- Francesco Guicciardini

source: Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Chance, Making Friends, New Friendship

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Patience, Life Love And Friendship, Life Love Friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends, New Friendship, Precious Friends

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

- Bil Keane

topic: Love, Friendship, Real Friends, Meaningful Friendship, Kisses And Hugs

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness, Discovering Self, Discovering Your True Self

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Positive, Thinking, May, Bff, Friends Forever

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

- William Shakespeare

source: Sonnet 30

topic: Death, Night, Bereavement, Precious Friends

If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Jobs, Children, Thinking, Precious Friends, Uninterested

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

- Clement Freud

topic: Bird, Insulting, May, Wild Strawberries, Brandy