Friends Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Friends
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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