Real Friends Quotes

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

The best mirror is an old friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

Friendship and money: oil and water.

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

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

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

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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.

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

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

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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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

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

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

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

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

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

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

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?

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

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

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

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

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

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

There is flattery in friendship.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

Friendship needs no words.

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

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