Quotes For Bestfriend

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“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

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

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

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

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

“do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."”

Clive Staples Lewis book The Four Loves

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

Clive Staples Lewis book The Four Loves

“But that which is useful is the better.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Walter Winchell (1897–1972) American gossip journalist

“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

John le Carré book The Mission Song

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

“The best of it all is, God is with us.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

Eugene Kennedy (1928–2015) American psychologist

“A Friend to all, is a Friend to none.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“If you believe in yourself, anything is possible.”

Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

Дуг Ларсон (1926)

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”

Дуглас Пейджест (1950)

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have a ton of friends, and more important to have real ones.”

Ralph Smart

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”

Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) 17th-century French writer and philosopher

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.”

Christie Brinkley (1954) American model

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

Isocrates (-436–-338 BC) ancient greek rhetorician

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) Dutch priest and writer

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

Plautus (-254–-184 BC) Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period

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

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”

Richard Burton (1925–1984) Welsh actor

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian

“Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist