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Most Famous True Friends Quotes
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. – William Penn
All other friends may come and go, / All other friendships fail; / But these, the friends I’ve worked to win, / Oh, they will never stale; / And comfort me till Time shall write / The finish to my tale. – Robert William Service
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! – Doug Larson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford
WE have been friends together, / In sunshine and in shade; / Since first beneath the chestnut-trees / In infancy we played. – Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. – Len Wein
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. – Bernard Meltzer
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are a true friend pointing me to Him / Lifting my downcast eyes / Turning my wondering gaze to the sky / Proving your love again, you are a true friend. – Twila Paris
True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them. – Michael Bassey Johnson
You’re a true friend / You’re here till the end / You pull me aside when something ain’t right / Talk with me now and into the night ‘Til it’s alright again / You’re a true friend. – Jeannie Lurie
True friends can communicate with their eyes. – Mary Rose Magnaye
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. – Saint Teresa of Avila
One true friend / Is what you’ve always been to me / One true friend / Is what I always wanna be. – John Michael Montgomery
True friends walks in when the rest of the world has walked out. – Walter Winchell
True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light. – Shannon L. Alder
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Henry David Thoreau
And when I left, it’s you who stayed. / You always knew that I’d come home again. / In the end, / You are my one true friend. – Bette Midler
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. – Barbara Kingsolver
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. – Jim Morrison
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. – Laurence J. Peter
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. – David Tyson
Don’t have to go out / Lookin’ for trouble / Trouble will find you it’s a matter of time / That’s when you’re gonna need someone behind you / A true friend isn’t easy to find. – Shannon Curfman
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
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. – E. B. White
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. – Oprah Winfrey
From the beginning you’ve been / Always there my old friend / True until the end of time. – John Ross Lang
A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called ‘True Friend’. – Miley Cyrus
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. – Sicilian Proverb
You just bear this in mind, a true friend is hard to find / So don’t you mind people grinning in your face. – Bernard Alexander
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Friends come and friends may go / My friend, you’re real I know / True self you have shown / You’re alright with me / Through thick and thick to thin. – Janet Jackson
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. – Henry David Thoreau
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. – Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend is hard to find / Go get yourself outside of your mind / Whether it’s right or whether it’s wrong / I’m on the treadmill all day long. – Sergio Pizzorno
Everybody needs a true, true friend / To help them through the day. – Garrett Dutton
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard
It’s been so long / Since he had a true friend / True friends are sure hard to come by. – Tekitha
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold Glasow
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. – Robert Brault
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You were there through it all, now it’s my turn / There’s no doubt, good lookin’ out / When life’s not fair / True friends will always be there. – Armand Majidi
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. – Frances Ward Weller
True friends are few and far between / But nothing comes between true friends. – Jeremy S. Stover
It’s the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter. – Marlene Dietrich
A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times. – Molly Oliver
Anytime your world is lonely / And you’ll find true friends are few / Anytime you see a rainbow / That will be a sign the storm is through. – Herbert Happy Lawson
No friendship is an accident. – O. Henry
A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren’t true friends in the first place. – Sandy Ratliff
In a world of delusion / Never turn your back on a friend / ’cause you can count your / Real true friends on one hand. – Janick Gers
Few there are that will endure a true friend. – Henry George Bohn
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. – H. Jackson Brown
I need a true friend to hold on the final round of tears and lonely nights / A sweet companion from now on to hear this very special prayer right. – Nevil Bernard
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Donna Roberts
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let me / Let me sit with you beside a street / Let me / Let me laugh with you and share your dream / I’ll be your true friend until the end, you can depend on me / So let me, let me, say you let me. – Baden Powell
I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit. – Aimee Teegarden
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes I feel so down / And no one here’s around / But you, you never left me lonely / And now I see, what a true friend means / And I trust that you would always be here for me / Lord I give you all. – Monica Arnold
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. – Clifton Fadiman
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand. – Robert Brault
Well, when you’re down and all alone, / There’s always somewhere you can go / Here I am / A true friend / There’s nothing gonna change over here on my end / Don’t be scared / It’s better shared / You know I always cared / I’m a everything’s all righter / I’m a prizefighter. – Mark O. Everett
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. – Irish Proverb
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend. – Dejan Stojanovic
To reach out your hand and reconcile, reconcile / And in the end you’ll make amends / Be a true friend, strong enough to bend / Be grateful when you start again, start again / When you start again. – Dillon O’Doherty
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. – C.S. Lewis
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin
True friends stab you in the front / Keep you from getting what you want / When one more fix could kill you / They help you realize that. – Teppei Teranishi
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. – Elizabeth Foley
The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. – Mike Johanns
