Friends Quotations | Page 2

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

It is good to have friends at court.

Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends ...

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

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

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

My part had three lines. I said, You look wonderful, sir, three times. All my friends said, Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life. I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

Men make the best friends.

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Friends are proved by adversity.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.

By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.

The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.

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.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.