Real Friends Quotes - Page 10

• Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Heart, Long

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• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Exercise, Men

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• Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

  William Penn

  Real, Home, Heart

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

  William Penn

  Real, Air, Forgive And Forget

  "Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims". Book by William Penn. Part 1: "Friendship", www.bartleby.com. 1682.

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• Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Real, Names

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• The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Real, Who Cares

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• Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Love And Friendship, And Love

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• It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, World, Sun

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1887). “Ethical Writings of Cicero: Cicero De Officiis, Cicero De Senectute, Cicero De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream”

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• In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Real, Character, Weight

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• I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Desire, Way

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.19

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• Thy friendship makes us fresh.

  William Shakespeare

  Real

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.100

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• Ready for us to get it on, aint got a love to call steady.. Hope it aint like that for long, I'll be your friend if you let me

  Drake

  Real, Long, Let Me

  Song: I Get Lonely Too, Album: So Far Ahead

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• Really I think I like who I'm becomin.. There's times where I might do it just to do it like it's nothin. It's times where I might blow like 50k on a vacation for all my soldiers just to see the looks on all their faces, all it took was patience

  Drake

  Real, Blow, Thinking

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• Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had
  I've been with you such a long time
  You're my sunshine and I want you to know
  That my feelings are true
  I really love you
  Oh you're my best friend

  John Deacon

  Real, Love You, Sunshine

  Song: You're My Best Friend

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• God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

  James Howell

  Real, Enemy, My Friends

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• Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Harmony, Melody

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

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• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

  Walker Percy

  Love, Friendship, Real

  Walker Percy (2011). “Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Real, Giving

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• What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Heart, Blessing

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• There is flattery in friendship.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Real, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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• If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
  As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
  A breed for barren metal of his friend?

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Shylock, Merchant Of Venice

  1596-7 Antonio to Shylock.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.3, l.130-3.

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• Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
  And could of men distinguish her election,
  Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Men, Choices

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Real, Successful, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• 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.

  Shel Silverstein

  Love, Friendship, Inspiring

  Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”

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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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