True Friend Quotes - Page 12

• For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Looks, Good Book

  Francis Bacon (1824). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.411

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• True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.

  Unknown

  Memories, Absence, Friendship Memories

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• Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

  Laozi

  Family, Hate, Attachment

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

  Alan Carr

  Friendship, Knows, Asks

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• You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Friendship, Enemy, Friends

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• A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Nice, Inspiration, Behind Your Back

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• If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Beloved, Possession

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• To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

  Sarah Ellis

  Friendship, Feelings, Complacency

  "Pictures of Private Life, Vol. 2". Book by Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1835.

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• The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

  Ariana Grande

  Friendship, Months, Stills

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• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Possession, True Friend Is

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• Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Struggle, Love Is

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• A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

  Jennifer Wilson

  Real, Visits You, House

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• With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friendship, Peace, Foundation

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• But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, Men, Trials

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

  Mary Schmich

  Archivists, True Friend Is, Biographers

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• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  William Banting

  Exercise, Old Friends, Weight

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  Connie Francis

  Italian, Chance, Restaurants

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• A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

  Robert Breault

  Real, Past, Faults

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• A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.

  Mike Glenn

  Self, Best Self

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• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Compassion, People

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• True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Self, Hands

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• A true friend is a sort of second self.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Self, True Friend Is

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• Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

  Herman Melville

  Relation, Reciprocal, Amity

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.138, Penguin

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• The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

  Merle Haggard

  Friendship, Bottles, Tonight

  Song: Tonight, The Bottle Let Me Down

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• True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

  Kent McCord

  Hollywood, Myth, Shows

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