Top 25 Real Friends Quotes of 104 - Page 3

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Thomas Fuller

Friendship, Family, Real Friends

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

Friendship, Believe, Real Friends

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Real Friends, Boards

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship, Real Friends, Advice

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Voltaire

Real, Real Friends, Soil

Voltaire (1820). “Pièces inédites de Voltaire, imprimées d'après les manuscrits originaux, pour faire suite aux différentes éditions publiées jusqu'a ce jour”, p.256

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Samuel Pepys

Friendship, Real Friends, Bed

Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press

A real friend's got your back, while the fake ones are sticking knives in it.

Unknown

Real, Real Friends, Fake

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

Thomas Fuller

Friendship, Grief, Real Friends

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.

Shel Silverstein

Friendship, Life Lesson, Real Friends

Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy

Friendship, Real Friends, Simple

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

William Shakespeare

Friendship, Real Friends, Adoption

'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58