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Real Friends Quotes

1.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde

I have no desire to ascend to the afterlife. None of my acquaintances are present in the beyond.
Authors on Real Friends Quotes: William Shakespeare Khalil Gibran Unknown Henry David Thoreau Marcus Tullius Cicero Baltasar Gracian Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. James Howell Thomas Fuller Benjamin Franklin Robert Louis Stevenson Toni Morrison Virginia Woolf Aristotle Jim Henson Lord Byron David Storey Stephanie Klein Richard Bach William Penn Mignon McLaughlin Abraham Lincoln Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Voltaire Arthur Brisbane Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Paramahansa Yogananda Oscar Wilde S. E. Hinton KRS-One Dean Koontz Henry Rollins E. M. Forster
2.
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert

3.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

4.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven

5.
A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.
Prince

6.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

7.
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

8.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach

9.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman

10.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

11.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell

12.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone

13.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo

14.
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

15.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
Rod McKuen

16.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

17.
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
Ashleigh Brilliant

18.
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Plautus

19.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin

20.
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
Robert Breault

21.
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

22.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Mary Catherwood

23.
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
David Storey

24.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas

25.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

26.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

27.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

28.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. Forster

29.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

30.
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
Mary Browne

31.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
William Shakespeare

32.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

33.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran

34.
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

35.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis

36.
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

38.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
S. E. Hinton

39.
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
Jim Henson

40.
Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

41.
What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
Jeffrey Archer

42.
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

43.
There is flattery in friendship.
William Shakespeare

44.
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
William Penn

45.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln

46.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

47.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison

48.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

49.
Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.
KRS-One

50.
Friendship needs no words.
Dag Hammarskjold