True Friend Quotes - Page 15

• The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

  John Cassian

  Space, Broken, Chance

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• A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Beer, Two, Alcohol

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.768, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowing Nothing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Struggle, Love Is

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• Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

  Catiline

  Friendship, Real, Agreement

  "Sallust: The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha". Book by Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Book XX, part 4, 2013.

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• A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

  Lauren Conrad

  Friendship, Drama, Tired

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• A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Crops, Fishes, Imaginary

  Teresa Medeiros (2010). “The Devil Wears Plaid”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

  Kay Panabaker

  Mean, Thinking, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Learning, Men

  Novum Organum (1620).

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• I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "Little Foxes". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 3, 1865.

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• I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

  Nicole Anderson

  Couple, School, Gymnastics

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sacrifice, Rights, Design

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• A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.

  Mike Glenn

  Self, Best Self

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• Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Brother, Men, Remember You

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• The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

  Merle Haggard

  Friendship, Bottles, Tonight

  Song: Tonight, The Bottle Let Me Down

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• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Compassion, People

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• True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Self, Hands

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• A true friend is a sort of second self.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Self, True Friend Is

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• A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

  Robert Breault

  Real, Past, Faults

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• Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

  Herman Melville

  Relation, Reciprocal, Amity

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.138, Penguin

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• Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Family, Long Distance Relationship, Witty

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

  Kent McCord

  Hollywood, Myth, Shows

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• Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Cheer, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011

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• I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stupid, Clothes, Sleepovers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan

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• A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

  Scott Dikkers

  Atheist, Atheism, Friends Forever

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.69, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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