Friends Quotes - Page 15

• Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

  Amber Tamblyn

  People, Family Friends, Young

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• Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

  May Sarton

  Best Friend, Friendship, Losing Friends

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.424, Open Road Media

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• I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Smile, Shadow

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• I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

  Mick Taylor

  Eric, Becoming, Pleasure

  Log for The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor Sunday, www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Fate, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.566, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2044, Delphi Classics

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• You can't eat your friends and have them too

  Budd Schulberg

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• 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.

  Meryl Streep

  Enough Time, Watches, I Can

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• You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Equality

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.381, NYU Press

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• I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

  Rip Torn

  Men, Thinking, Shy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  Karrie Webb

  Eight, Australia, Missing

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• Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Pride, Government

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• My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

  James McBride

  Children, School, Black

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.83, A&C Black

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• Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cute, Friendship, Parades

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• Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

  Richard Widmark

  America, Forever, Should

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• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  George Weinberg

  Fighting, Gay, Men

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• Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

  Nicholas Breton

  Assurance, Foe, Knows

  Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”

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• It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Years, Fifteen, Ten

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• There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

  Dane Cook

  Groups, Likes, Group Of Friends

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• There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

  Carolyn Wells

  Friendship, Book, Giving

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• I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

  Duke of Wellington

  Hate, Believe, Mean

  Noted in Lady Salisbury's diary, 26 October 1833, in C. Oman 'The Gascoyne Heiress' (1968) 3

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• When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Friendship, Destiny, Cry

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• An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Friendship, Old Friends, Lovers

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

  Mason Cooley

  Death, Party, Book

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