Good Friend Quotes - Page 3

• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Friendship, Success

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wine, Cheese, Be Good

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• Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Friends, People, Way

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.

  Suzanne LaFleur

  Forget, Sometimes, This Life

  Suzanne LaFleur (2011). “Eight Keys”, p.154, Wendy Lamb Books

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• We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Egypt, Views

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, Thinking, President

  "American Word Interview with Madeleine Albright". Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.

  Joel McIver

  Eye, Glasses, Dragons

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• All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

  Menander

  Friends, Men, Doe

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• One of my roles as vice president is to - is to be an interlocutor with the Senate and the House because everybody up there knows I respect them and I enjoy it. And I have a lot of good friends on both sides of the aisle up there.

  Joe Biden

  House, President, Sides

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

  Pema Chodron

  Friendly, Made, Situation

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• Donald Trump has been a good friend for a long time. I texted him after the election and I said 'congratulations, Mr. President. The Nicklauses are all happy for the Trumps,' and I said, 'It's time to bring American together, make American great again as you wish.'

  Jack Nicklaus

  Long, Wish, President

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Friendship, Thank You, True Friend

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• Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Friendship, Inspiration

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship

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• Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Lasting Happiness, Ability

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• She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Sarcastic, Fishing, Water

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• I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

  Calista Flockhart

  Hands, Parent, Close Friends

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• I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cost

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.819, Simon and Schuster

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• A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Gun, Helping, Great Friend

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• I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, Remember, New World

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.

  Ai Yazawa

  Hurt, Fighting, Two

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