Real Friends Quotes - Page 4

• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Best Friend, Friendship, Bff Forever

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Real, Taken

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Men, Thinking

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Friendship, True Friend, My Best Friend

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• I would not enter on my list of friends
  (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
  Yet wanting sensibility) the man
  Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

  William Cowper

  Real, Men, Feet

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 6 'The Winter Walk at Noon' l. 560

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• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

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• 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

  Friendship, Birthday, Giving Up

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• The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Friendship, Hurt, Love Is

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• 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

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Friendship, Losing Friends, Making Friends

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

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• True friends stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Community, Live For Others, True Friendship

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• Real friends stab you in the front.

  Jonathan Davis

  Friendship, Im Sorry, True Friend

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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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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Dating, Special

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1904). “The professor at the breakfast-table”

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