
Top 100 Friends Are Real Quotes
#2. The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
Nicolas Chamfort
#3. Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies - loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt - every time they come around.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.
Evan Spiegel
#5. I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.
Michael Foreman
#6. Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.
KRS-One
#7. The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't there, take it like they aren't your friends, find other friends. This are fake!
Deyth Banger
#8. You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#9. Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.
Oswald J. Smith
#10. I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
Charles Durning
#11. I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.
Jackson Guthy
#12. I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.
Seanan McGuire
#13. Don't hate people who show you what's wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends.
C. JoyBell C.
#14. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. B*tches come and go but friends are for real.
Rachel
#16. Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends.
Morgan Matson
#17. I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.
Carson Daly
#18. Are you for real? You can't use another friend? We can't be 'just friends'? - Liz. Hell no - Thoreau.
Whitney G.
#19. Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you."
"And that's the definition of a real friend?"
"Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.
Alexandra Bracken
#20. The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.
Aldous Huxley
#21. The message to me was simple: you might change your whole life and lose love, but real good friends are REALLY fucking hard to come by, specifically if you live a life of intergalactic adventure.
Ryan Britt
#22. [...]when everybody starts laughing at Ra's old hair and senility he gets real pissed and when you are a god and you are real pissed there is only one solution, my friends: GENOCIDE.
Cory O'Brien
#23. To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Bill Maher
#24. Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"
Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!
S.J. Kincaid
#25. You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
William S. Burroughs
#26. I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.
Margot Robbie
#27. In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
John Darnielle
#28. We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#29. Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.
Frederick Lenz
#30. I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#31. A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
Jennifer Wilson
#32. I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.
Zachary Taylor
#33. Family over friends, because real friends are family
Drake
#34. The ones who lived, who truly lived, they make an imprint on our lives. They leave their mark in our hearts. They change the course of our fates and our destinies. Those are the real heroes. The ones who cared enough for a human being that they rewrote their futures."
- Alastor Moody
Mordred
#35. Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That's priceless. Those are real friends.
Mark Patterson
#36. We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
#37. When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.'
Greg Camp
#38. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
Steven Pressfield
#39. I could not help but think how fortunate we are when we have real friends, people we can count on and turn to and who are always glad to see us when we are lonely.
Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
#40. I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.
John Malkovich
#41. There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.
Shlomo Carlebach
#42. You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
#43. When two friends, like you and me, are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.
Plato
#44. To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
Reba McEntire
#45. Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens
#46. The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.
Pete Wentz
#47. The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
Jim Lovell
#48. It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
Christina Aguilera
#49. I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.
Conor Oberst
#50. The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.
Sheryl Sandberg
#51. My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.
Rupert Friend
#52. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
Brian D. McLaren
#53. True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. Fans can sometimes develop a false sense of relationship with celebrities simply because they know so much about them. But real friends are more than just fans. And real disciples have an actual relationship with the Lord. They know his voice.
Richard Jacobson
#55. I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.
Alber Elbaz
#56. After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
Emily Browning
#57. Thirteen is hard. You don't know who you are yet. Who your real friends are. Who you can trust. You don't yet know what you are capable of.
Jessica Brody
#58. I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.
Lady Gaga
#59. If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
Dale Carnegie
#60. All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#61. I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.
Denzel Washington
#62. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
#63. It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.
Grant Morrison
#64. These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
Jonathan Kellerman
#65. My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#66. Someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are.
T.D. Jakes
#67. To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.
Suzanne Massie
#68. It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.
Tomas Berdych
#69. I don't go and ask my friends for favours. They are real, true, incredible amazing human beings with good hearts. They have evolved as human beings. I have evolved as a human being and I have let this wall down that I had.
Shane Bunting
#70. I'm a mechanic; I fix things that are broken. I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote. I have powerful friends. But when it comes right down to it, my real superpower is chaos." -Mercy
Patricia Briggs
#71. I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
Sarah McLachlan
#72. Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.
Belinda Subraman
#73. Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.
Scott Meyers
#74. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.
Katherine Center
#75. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Edvard Grieg
#77. Most of my ex-girlfriends are still close friends. I guess when you are with someone that long, unless they did something really terrible to you, you remain friends. My real estate business is run by my best friend, who is an ex-girlfriend.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#78. The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
Eleanor Mondale
#79. why did you turn my friends into pigs i don't know maybe the real question is why are your friends so turn-into-pigsable
Mallory Ortberg
#80. Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.
Maria Callas
#81. Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.
Amy Dickinson
#82. Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media*
Connor Franta
#83. Parker and I are good...friends."
"Seriously?" Martha quirked an eyebrow. "What're ya'll for real? A couple? I swear you look as smitten as a bull in a herd of...other bulls.
Kerry Adrienne
#84. You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.
Fergie
#85. The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
#86. School is tough sometimes, but it's all about knowing who your real friends are.
Ariana Grande
#87. Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.
Francois Fenelon
#88. We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.
Rob Bell
#89. The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challanges and few of them will gone also, won't they?
Deyth Banger
#90. It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.
Russell Brand
#91. Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.
Hiroko Sakai
#92. ...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects. Books are friends. ... They're also ideas and emotions.
Stephen King
#93. I think these days when there is so little to believe in - when the old loyalties - God, country, and the hope of Heaven - aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in - someone who seems beautiful.
William Carlos Williams
#94. Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
James Rachels
#95. A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.
Sarah
#96. If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
Marilyn Manson
#97. As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.
Sanjay Dutt
#98. 24There are "friends" who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.
Anonymous
#100. When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.
Laurie Metcalf
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