"I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly."
Read quote
6 likes
Good Friend quotes
Good Friend
512 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Good Friend
Browse quotes that often appear alongside good friend — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Good Friend quotes (page 4 of 26)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week."
Read quote
6 likes
"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."
Read quote
6 likes
"I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him."
Read quote
5 likes
"Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people."
Read quote
5 likes
"In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them."
Read quote
5 likes
"I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends."
Read quote
5 likes
"There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble."
Read quote
5 likes
"I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care."
Read quote
4 likes
"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."
Read quote
4 likes
"Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do."
Read quote
4 likes
"Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle."
Read quote
4 likes
"When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent."
Read quote
4 likes
"What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself."
Read quote
4 likes
"The story he [Todd Willingham] told me was this: He woke up to a fire. He ran out of the house and couldn't run back in to save his children, and that was enough to get me interested. ... There's a writer in me that's like, ... this is a great story. ... I have a good friend, who was my neighbor at the time, and I told her about it. ... She had been a reporter, and she was like, "Let's go investigate it.""
Read quote
3 likes
"For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it - we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that's cool."
Read quote
3 likes
"My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like, "You won that! You did this!" It was all about, "You've got a good heart. You're a good friend. You're a good daughter." So that other stuff in no way defines my sense of self."
Read quote
3 likes
"[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)"
Read quote
3 likes
"When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough."
Read quote
3 likes
"All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five."
Read quote
3 likes