Quotes on Real Friends

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

A friend to all is a friend to none.