Friends Quotes - Page 37

• The new is older than the old;
  And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
  That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
  One thing we sought.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Waiting, Missing, One Thing

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.62

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• The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

  Norm MacDonald

  Adversity, Prosperity, Reason

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• Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Christian, Encouragement

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.273

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• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  Zachary Taylor

  Friendship, Regret, Presidential

  Zachary Taylor, Smith PYNE (1850). “Obituary Addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Z. Taylor ... in the Senate and House of Representatives ... with the funeral Semon by the Rev. S. Pyne, etc”, p.8

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• When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

  Walter Scott

  Friendship, True Friend, Clouds

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• "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cute, Sweet, Lasts

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• Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Fire, Safety, Bravery

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• It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Sex, Smart, Dumb

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• We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friendship, Men, Different

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• She that asks
  Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all,
  And hates their coming.

  William Cowper

  Hate, Hundred, Dear

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.144

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• I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

  Peter Tork

  Knows, Courteous

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• Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Vices

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• I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Real, Littles

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• I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Happy Life, Thinking, Hair

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• Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Habit, Found, Terrible

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• That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

  Kristin Hannah

  Best Friend, Mother, Heart

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.273, Macmillan

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• And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that

  Amber Tamblyn

  Believe, Personal Opinions, Ucla

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• Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

  Mason Cooley

  Vanity

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• I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

  William Styron

  Thinking, Critics, Unfortunate

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Technology, People, Needs

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• And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up

  Fred Thompson

  Democracy, World, Lines

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• The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Children, Parent

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Children, Littles

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  To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Strength, Heart

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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