Friends Quotes

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

True friends stab you in the front.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Friends are thieves of time.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

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.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.

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.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I've met. I currently don't have any enemies that I know of.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around.

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.

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

My friends, there are no friends.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.