True Friend Quotes - Page 18

• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, Giving

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Wall, Fall

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• You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who’s still there.

  Jeffree Star

  Screw Ups, Who Your Friends Are, Screws

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• It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Real, Home

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• You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

  Richard M. Nixon

  World, Top Of The World

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• Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Greatest Treasure, Soul, Suffering

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• A true friend to me is someone that comes over for dinner, and hangs out with my daughter, someone I party with on a regular basis.

  Gilbert Melendez

  Daughter, Party, Dinner

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• You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Friendship, Success, Lonely

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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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Cheer, Supportive, Triumph

  "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

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• A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Wise, Kindness

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

  Seungsahn

  Thieves, Praise, Criticize

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• To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
  [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

  Sallust

  Friendship, Desire, Rejects

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• True friendship can exist only between equals.

  Plato

  True Friendship

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• There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Wise, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 18, 2015

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