A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

Source: Warren G. Harding, Remark to editor William Alan White, as quoted in Thomas Harry Williams et al. (1959) A History of the United States.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

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Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Source: Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, (1879).

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.

Source: Panchatantra, Choice of Friends, Chapter iv.