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Quotes About Friends

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
~ Kathy Griffin
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
~ Aeschylus
Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
~ Richard Pryor
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
~ Layne Staley
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
~ Rahm Emanuel
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
~ David Icke
I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
~ Rita Rudner
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
~ Unknown
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
~ Plutarch
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
~ Sarah Palin
The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.
~ Sarah Palin
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
~ Unknown
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
~ Stephen King
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
~ W Clement Stone
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
~ H L Mencken
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
~ Walt Whitman
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
~ Helen Keller
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
~ John F Kennedy
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
~ Bill Cosby
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
~ Aristotle