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Quotes About Friends

In business, sir, said he, one has no friends, only correspondents.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Les amis d'aujourd'hui sont les ennemis de demain.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows? – perhaps a few friends to reward.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Bien sabéis, caballero -contestó-, que en el comercio no hay amigos, sino socios.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends:
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among
~ Alice Hoffman
The banging at the door was his excuse to turn away—some people had their coats in there—and while he stood with his back to her she dressed again and unlocked the door and walked out. She smiled at the taunts and jeers of her friends and when someone asked, "Where's Mike?" she said, "I think I killed him," which got a great laugh.
~ Alice McDermott
I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.
~ Alice Walker
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
~ Alistair Cooke
So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends.
~ Allen Ginsberg
His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them. In
~ Ambrose Bierce
The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' 'Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen. 'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Pick your enemies more carefully than your friends," Nothing was muttering at the flames. "They will be with you longer.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.
~ Joe Abercrombie
81 percent of U.S. online consumers' purchase decisions are influenced by their friends' social media posts.
~ Joe Calloway
Under what circumstances are you typically grateful? You may answer, I'm grateful for my family, the nice home I have, my friends, and my job. What those things have in common is that they're already in your life.
~ Joe Dispenza
Give a man a choice between reality and loneliness or fantasy and community, he'll pick having friends every time.
~ Joe Hill
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
~ Joe Rogan
Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.
~ Johan Galtung
And many of our scientists imagine the root cause of addiction can be found on a brain scan, in a society that is falling apart, where many people have no friends, where they are taught life is all about buying things and showing them off on Instagram, where they are experiencing more and more humiliation as each day passes.
~ Johann Hari