Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arnold Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.

Deepak Chopra

Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.

Cher Lloyd

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

Chaim Potok

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Bernard Meltzer

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Benjamin Franklin

A true friend is the greatest possesion.

Diane von Furstenberg

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

Richard G. Scott

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

Daniel Handler

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

Aristotle

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle

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.

Aristotle

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

Aristotle

A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

Aristotle

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

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

Abraham Flexner

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Miley Cyrus

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

C. S. Lewis

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

Aimee Teegarden

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.

Edward Young

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

Anne Lamott

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

Dorothy Allison

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

E. B. White

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

Dalai Lama

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

Dalai Lama

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.