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True Friend Quotes - Page 13

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

"Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview by Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.145

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

Teresa Medeiros (2010). “The Devil Wears Plaid”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

Love is sunshine, music, nature, my puppies, my boyfriend, my parents, my siblings, my true friends. It's a connection that allows us to coexist on this planet.

"American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

Robert Wright (1994). “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life”, Pantheon

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

Nelson Mandela (2008). “Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela”, p.74, Hachette UK