Friends Quotes - Page 22

• Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Enough, Acquaintance

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 12

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• My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Artist, Parent

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• 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.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Party, Dirty

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• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

  Evelyn Waugh

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  "Diaries of Evelyn Waugh" by Evelyn Waugh, (p. 786), 1976.

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• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

  Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39

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• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

  Mencius

  Friendship, Brother, True Friend

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• Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

  George Madison Adams

  Friendship, Giving, Inspire

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• Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Girl, Real

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• Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Thinking, Connections

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.102

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• He makes no friend who never made a foe.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friendship, Military, No Friends

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 1080

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• Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

  Stephen Fry

  Friendship, Lovely

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• Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Friendship, Numbers, Choices

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• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  Trish Stratus

  Taken, Wrestling, Good Friend

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• 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, Block, Real

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• A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Friendship, Men, Littles

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• As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

  John Zorn

  Support You, Attention, Want

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• Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

  Raymond Burr

  Friendship, People, Temptation

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• A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Friendship, Sports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of their lives with each other. See men once we become friends with another man we may never say another word to him, unless there's valuable information that needs to be exchanged. Things like "Hey Jim, your shirt's on fire."

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Nice, Hero

  "PopSugarUK Meets Remember Me Cast Part One: Robert Pattinson on Fighting, Father Figures and Friends". PopSugarUK interview, www.popsugar.co.uk. March 29, 2010.

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• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Friendship, Mom

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

  Markus Zusak

  Life, Birthday, Beauty

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• Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Giving, Meals

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Randy Pausch

  Years, Long, People

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