Friends Quotations | Page 3

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

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.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

Friends are ourselves.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

The wretched have no friends.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

To friendship every burden's light.

There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

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.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.

My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Friends made fast seldom remain fast.

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them...

You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.