True Friend Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Real, Silly

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, Yoga

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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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• Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

  Aristotle

  Taken, Character, Class

  Aristotle, William David Ross (1955). “Works”

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• The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Wise, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Beloved, Possession

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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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• A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.

  Tonya Hurley

  Needs, Agendas, Good Times

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Homecoming”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Enemy

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

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• Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

  Cressida Cowell

  Mean, Understanding, Trying

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• Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Would Be, Sticks, Scenery

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.204, Bantam

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• True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

  William Hazlitt

  Real, Errors, Mirrors

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.114

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• When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

  Washington Irving

  Cheer, Real, Sorrow

  Washington Irving (1840). “The Works of Washington Irving”, p.192

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• To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
  But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorry, Real, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.156, Palgrave Macmillan

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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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• 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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• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

  Henry Vaughan

  Friendship, Country, Military

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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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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• 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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• Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Love Is, Men, Self

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

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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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• Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Religious, Dog

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