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Quotes About Friends

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends
~ Cyril Connolly
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
~ Unknown
People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
~ Jacques Delille
The nearest I can make it out, Love your Enemies means, Hate your Friends
~ Benjamin Franklin
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.
~ Eskimo proverb
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
~ Jean Cocteau
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
~ Tyra Banks
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
~ Red Skelton
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
~ Adam Sandler
I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
~ Marc Jacobs
I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
~ Honore de Balzac
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
~ Carl Sandburg
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
~ George Will
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
~ John Donne
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.
~ Unknown
The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President di.. Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
~ Unknown
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
~ Meryl Streep
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
~ Ambrose Bierce