True Friend Quotes - Page 11

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.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

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.

Fake friends are around when they think you're cool. True friends are around even when they think you're fool.

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.

True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.

A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

As long as the Children of Israel saw Pharaoh as a friend, they could not see Moses and Jehovah as their true friend. As they came into consciousness - by the wicked things that Pharaoh continued to do against them - that Pharaoh was indeed their enemy, then Moses and Jehovah's call to them to separate from Pharaoh to build a nation of their own became a reality.