To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat. , Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est. ]
Two friends. . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
For friends. . . do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values. ' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. . . . A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.
How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.
I see love as an evolution of true friendship.
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.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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.
We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.
I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.