Many Friends Quotes

• It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Strong, Beloved

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• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

  Ben Jonson

  Friendship, Positive, Happiness

  'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, True Friend, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

  Mary Schmich

  Friendship, People, Friends Come And Go

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

  Pythagoras

  Friendship, Happy Life, Journey

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• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

  Edward Abbey

  Loses

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

  Truman Capote

  Friendship, Best Friend, Funny Friend

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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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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• I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Friendship, People, Lots Of Friends

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

  Ovid

  Sky, May, Prosperity

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• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Friendship, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

  Pink

  Badass, Dad, Bad Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands,
  And many friends I've met;
  Not one fair scene or kindly smile
  Can this fond heart forget.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Heart, Land, Forget

  "Oh, steer my Bark to Erin's Isle". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Real, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

  Epicurus

  Friendship, Relationship, Leadership

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• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

  Emil Ludwig

  Friendship, Real, Two

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• I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.

  Jane Seymour

  Spiritual, Believe, Godly

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• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Friendship, Sake, Foundation

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• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

  Mary Catherwood

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

  Nick Tosches

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Friends Come And Go

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• The older you get, the more you learn.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Short Life, Life Is Short

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• So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

  Ovid

  Long, Secure, Clouded

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1315, Delphi Classics

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