Good Friend Quotes

• I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Remember
  • Good Friend
  • New World

• We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Good
  • May
  • Friend

• Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.

  

  Danila Kozlovsky
  • Good
  • She
  • Friends

• We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Good
  • Done
  • Desire

• As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Shoes
  • Run
  • Murder

• I'm a good friend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Good Friend

• I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Film

• A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Good
  • Friend

• Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• ...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Way

• If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Friend

• Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Movement
  • Ministry
  • Good Friend

• Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life
  • Dearest
  • Throw Away

• Be kind today....to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.

  

  Ian Lawton
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Character
  • Friends

• I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Enemy
  • Good Friend
  • Demise

• Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Athens

• Just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.

  

  Bobby Allison
  • Fun
  • My Family
  • Great Deal

• People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mistakes
  • Anger
  • Treasure

• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Child
  • Simplicity
  • Sovereign

• Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Books
  • Strange
  • Manage

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