Friends Quotes - Page 27

• Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Life, Death, Nature

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  Ernst Zundel

  Years, People, Cynical

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• In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

  Fred Ward

  Lying, Play, Levels

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• The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Faults, Becoming

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• 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

  Heart, New Relationship, Glasses

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• One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Christian, Religious, Sunday

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• The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

  Francois Truffaut

  Numbers, Directors, Tomorrow

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• Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Mean, People, Ruth

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• the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  People, Would Be, Needs

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.391, Wildside Press LLC

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• Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Neglected, Comforter

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.407

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• Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean, Ideas, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.232, Harvard University Press

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• In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Reflection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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• A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Enemy

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• There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Friendship, Demand, Honest

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

  Nicole Sullivan

  Years, Laughing, Together

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• In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

  Herman Melville

  Friendship, Faithful, Acquaintance

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Sex, Boys

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.276, Herman Melville

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• Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Clever, Stronger

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• The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

  Mason Cooley

  Friendship, New Friends, Found

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• Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Friendship, Suffering

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1596, Moody Publishers

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• Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

  John Walters

  Track, Parent, Behavior

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• For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Men, Harbors

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• Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Envy, Gossip

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• Father,
  you died once,
  salted down at fifty-nine,
  packed down like a big snow angel,
  wasn't that enough?

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Angel, Snow

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• Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Meat, Cold

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1919, Delphi Classics

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