Friends Quotes - Page 23

• May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Emma Thompson

  New York, Gay, People

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• I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

  Kiana Tom

  Painting, Enjoy, Mediums

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• Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

  Peter Ustinov

  Friendship, Cute Relationship, Sweet

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 5

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• 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.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Boys, Want, Noodles

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• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  Ian Somerhalder

  True Friend, Two, Three

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jan 21, 2015

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• Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

  John Webster

  Breasts, Stills, Lays

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.84, Manchester University Press

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• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Emma Thompson

  Good Friend, Men, Years

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• In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

  Robert Breault

  Birthday, Kids, Order

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• Let your best be for your friend.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Real, Real Friends

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Between friends there is no need of justice.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Real, Justice

  Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.508

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

  Addison Mizner

  Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

  "The Complete Cynic".

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• I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

  Clarence Thomas

  Winning, Thinking, Soul

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• Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

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• I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

  Adele

  Inspirational, Beauty, Girl

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• True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Opposites, Grace

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• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Adversity, Ties

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• Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Wonder

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.59

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• Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.267, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Technology, Doors, Able

  "As the World Turns" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1998.

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• As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

  Khalil Gibran

  Increase, Decrease

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• [H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!

  Sarah Fielding

  Friendship, Heart, Names

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• Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
  Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
  And a man makes friends without half trying
  That's where the West begins.

  Arthur Chapman

  Friendship, Happiness, Men

  Estelle Philleo, Arthur Chapman (1920). “Out where the West Begins”

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