Real Friends Quotes - Page 5

• Friendship is Love without his wings!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Wings

  'L'Amitiè est l'amour sans ailes'

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• 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

  Friendship, Real, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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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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• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

  Ben Jonson

  Friendship, Positive, Happiness

  'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2

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• Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

  John Selden

  Friendship, Kings, Real

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, My Best Friend, Making Friends

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

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• Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Friendship, Nature

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

  Samuel Pepys

  Friendship, Bed, Proud

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press

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• Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Friendship, Real, Unique

  "Failure: the Back Door to Success".

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• Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Adoption, Soul

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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  We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Travel

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• No man is useless while he has a friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Cheer, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.550, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

  David Storey

  Friendship, True Friend, Essence

  "Home".

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• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• A good friend is my nearest relation.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Family, Good Friend

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• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Book

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• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Friendship, Football

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Music

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• My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

  Lee Iacocca

  Friendship, Cute, Relationship

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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