Friends Quotations | Page 4

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.

She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.