Friends Quotes - Page 5

• If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

  Muhammad Ali

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mother, Character, Loss

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

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• I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

  Henry David Thoreau

  My Friends, Amiable

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “Winter”

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• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  "The Works of Charles Lamb".

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• The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Decision, Ego, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.127, Penguin

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• It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Friendly, Plenty

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.149

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• I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Car

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Annoyed, Fool

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

  Themistocles

  Favors, May, Stranger

  "Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek: with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, rtansl. by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, p. 225, 1850.

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• 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.

  Alice Miller

  Friendship, Real Friends, Gossip

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• In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

  Epictetus

  Adversity, Prosperity, Easy

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• A road to a friend's house is never long.

  Ann Richards

  Friendship, Wise, Long

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• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

  Charles Kingsley

  Friendship, True Friend, Mean

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Order, Priorities

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

  Diego Boneta

  True Friend, Thinking, Important

  "Crush of the Week: Diego Boneta". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2011.

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• It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Luck, Want

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

  Rod McKuen

  Friendship, Real Friends, Strangers And Friends

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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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