That One Friend Quotes:

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical, Friends Forever, One Friend

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

topic: Love, Friendship, Real Friends, One Friend, Being A Good Friend

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

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

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Love, Friendship, Positive, Tigger, Bff

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Positive, Lasting Friendship, One Friend

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

The best mirror is an old friend.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

topic: Mirrors, Old Friends, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship, Loyal Friend

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Heart, Songs And Friendship, Losing Friends

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Omar Khayyam

source: Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

- Douglas Pagels

source: Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

topic: Relationship, Making Friends, Bff, Meeting New Friends, Inspirational 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

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

- Henry Ford

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Positive, Bff, Songs And Friendship

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Adventure, New Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

- Euripides

source: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

topic: Friendship, Positive, Real Friends, Inspirational Friendship, I Am Selfish

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Real, Two, Community, One Friend, Parallelism

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Friendship, Witty, New Friendship, Power Of Laughter

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Friendship, Birthday, Giving Up, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Friendship, Strong, Beloved, Beloved Friends, That One Friend

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

- Mencius

topic: Brother, Sibling, My Friendship, Chinese Philosopher, Friend Valentine

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

- Henry Adams

topic: Friendship, Two, Three, Inspiring Friends, One Friend

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 true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend, Friends Forever, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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

topic: Real, Real Friends, Numbers, Songs And Friendship, Inspiring Friends

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

- George Santayana

topic: Life, Motivational, Friendship, One Friend, Party Invitations

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

- Emil Ludwig

topic: Real, Two Friends, Differences, Inspiring Friends, One Friend

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Friendship, Kindness, Blessing, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Friendship, Attitude, Power, Reins, Lost Friend

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

source: Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.53, Sarah Orne Jewett

topic: Friendship, Old Friends, Fit, Making Friends, Old Friendship

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

- Thomas Hughes

source: "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

topic: Friendship, Thank You, Blessed, Making Friends, New Friendship

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Self, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

- Honore de Balzac

source: Honore de Balzac (1884). “Cousin Pons”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends, That One Friend

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Real, Believe, Mean, That One Friend, Nice Friend

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Gratitude, Real, Errors, Disclosure, Display

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Making Friends, Inspirational Friendship

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

- Solomon

source: John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Fall, Two Best Friends, Good Friendship

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War, Meaningful Friendship, One Friend

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday, Making Friends, My Friendship

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

- Eustace Budgell

topic: Relationship, Strong, Two, Meaningful Friendship, Good Friendship

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

- Edith Wharton

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Self, Meaning Of Friendship, Friends Forever

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

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, My Friendship, Wonderful Friendship

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Life, Friendship, Time, Old Friendship, That One Friend

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

- Nelly Furtado

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Voice, Void, Like You, One Friend, Fill The Void

The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Mother, Father, Faces, One Friend, That One Friend