Quotes about friends
friends vanity
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends. Mason Cooley
friends drinking accomplices
Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
friends enemy dangerous
An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.
friends young-friends youth
My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.
friends death book
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
friendship old-friends lovers
An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
friends good-friend men
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile. Menander
friendship sun laziness
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. Paul Cezanne
friends real compliment
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. Oscar Wilde
friendship block real
Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks. Liv Ullmann
friendship real-friends civil-war
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. Abraham Lincoln
friends-or-friendship needing silences
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
friends-or-friendship husband
My husband and I started off as friends, which has been very important for our relationship, Joan Collins
friends-or-friendship man meltdown record soviet sure trying
He went back to record the meltdown of Chernobyl, and his friends say he just disappeared. This man was trying to record the disaster, but it was still the Soviet Union, and I'm sure many of them did not want him doing this.
friends-or-friendship lost mortar seen
I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints. Christiane Amanpour
friendship wise dog
He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him. Jerome K. Jerome
friends technology doors
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. Jeffrey Klein
friends regret three
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. Jeffrey Tambor
friends fighting people
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. Hillary Clinton
friends children men
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends. Fay Weldon
friends kindness thinking
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. Fran Lebowitz
friends responsibility thinking
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.
friends mom wife
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. Chris Ware
friends israel support
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray. George W. Bush
friendship realizing mercy
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. Jean Cocteau
friends thinking fiber
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. George Eliot
friends utterance my-friends
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
friends yesterday forever
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
friends money reading
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other. George Jean Nathan
friends salt
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.] George Herbert
friendship joy suffering
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. Friedrich Nietzsche
friends people enough
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. Jeanette Winterson
friendship religious buddhist
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. Jena Malone