Great Friend Quotes

• You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• 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

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• The best time to make friends is
  before you need them.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Best Friend

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• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

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

  Len Wein

  Friendship, Best Friend, Patience

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

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• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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• Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Real Friends, My Best Friend

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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

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• The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Keys, People, Great Friendship

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• Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

  Bob Iger

  Jobs, People, Legacy

  "Colleagues, friends react to Steve Jobs' death, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

  Emma Roberts

  Family And Friends, Knows

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• There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

  Jo Brand

  Boxes, Treats, I Can

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Loss, Meals

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Fun, Kids, Years

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• Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

  Elton John

  Wind

  "Elton John's incredible life: Rock icon on fatherhood, fame, addiction and his brush with death". Interview with Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2013.

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• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  Vince Vaughn

  Home, Illinois, Cities

  "Vince Vaughn in Love". Interview with Gary Dretzka, www.chicagomag.com. June, 2006.

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