Quotessence
Home / Topics / True Friend Quotes

True Friend Quotes

Browse 426 quotes about True Friend.

Related topics

True Friend Quotes

“Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose.”

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

“Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.”

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

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

“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.”

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

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

“True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.”

“When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”