Quotes on True Friend

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

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

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 true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

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.

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.