Real Friends Quotes - Page 10

• The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Real

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• Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, May, Definitions

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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

  Love, Loneliness, Solitude

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

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• Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Real, Feelings

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.314, Macmillan

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• In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Blessed, Jealous

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• You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

  Brad Thor

  Real, Moving, Body

  Brad Thor (2013). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #4: The Athena Project, Full Black, and Black List”, p.796, Simon and Schuster

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• While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, People

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• There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Dream, Real, Wish

  Jean de La Fontaine (1841). “Fables of La Fontaine”, p.82

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Friendship, True Friend, Good Friend

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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• The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

  Eugene Kennedy

  Friendship, Real, Simple

  "The Promise of Friendship". Book by Kathy Wagoner, 2002.

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• Do not save your loving speeches
  For your friends till they are dead;
  Do not write them on their tombstones,
  Speak them rather now instead.

  Anna Mickelson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

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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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• You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Equality, Term

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.381, NYU Press

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

  William Penn

  Friendship, Freedom, Enclosure

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

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• An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Real, Truthful

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Real, Ignorance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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

  Eustace Budgell

  Friendship, Relationship, Strong

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  Ed Cunningham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

  Donna Roberts

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, Real, Losing Friends

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