Quotes on Real Friends

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.