Best Real Friends Wisdom
575 Real Friends quotes by 377 unique authors
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that…
— George MacDonald
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Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
— Shirley MacLaine
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To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my…
— Bill Maher
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
— Katherine Mansfield
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out…
— Sarah McLachlan
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
— Margaret Mead
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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
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are…
— Karl A. Menninger
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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,…
— Alice Miller
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The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
— Eleanor Mondale
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
— Jim Morrison
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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all…
— Toni Morrison
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of…
— Henri Nouwen
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character…
— Jean Paul
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
— Samuel Pepys
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You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
— Plautus
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
— Plautus
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
— Plutarch
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
— Mario Puzo
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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