Quotes on True Friend

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

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

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.