Friends Quotes - Page 28

• I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

  Whitney Houston

  Being Alone, Mean, Feeling Alone

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• Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
  it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
  as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Believe, Names

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• Elysium is as far as to
  The very nearest room,
  If in that room a friend await
  Felicity of doom.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Happiness, Elysium

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, First Avenue Editions

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• He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

  Thomas Fuller

  Behind My Back, Speak, Wells

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• The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

  Leighton Meester

  Way, Process, About Yourself

  "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2011.

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• In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

  Charles Stanley

  Wise, Mean, Godly

  "Dr. Charles Stanley: Learning to Walk Wisely". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

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• The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

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• Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Things In Life, Two, Honor

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mistake, Errors, Quaint

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• Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, League, No Friends

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

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• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sex, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

  Sharon Stone

  Stars, Believe, Hard Work

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• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Joy, Mines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

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• When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

  Sharon Stone

  Sex, Children, Teenage

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• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Generosity, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Real, Existence

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• You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Friendship, True Friend, Enemy

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• When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boys, Lamps, Toys

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.387

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• I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

  Chris Ware

  Mom, Wife, Realizing

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

  Ruby Wax

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• You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

  Ruby Wax

  Jealous, Laughing, Great Friend

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• I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Years, Phantoms, Saws

  Interview with Paul Fischer, www.moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  Fay Weldon

  Children, Men, Thinking

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