Top Friends Quotes Collection

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Image of Francis Quarles
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.
- Francis Quarles
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Image of Beth Kephart
I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.
- Beth Kephart
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Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Image of Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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.
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Image of Jane Rule
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.
- Jane Rule
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Image of Amber Tamblyn
And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that
- Amber Tamblyn
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Image of Merle Shain
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.
- Merle Shain
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Image of Barbara Park
I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.
- Barbara Park
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Image of Robert Wyatt
It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
- Robert Wyatt
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Image of Milo Ventimiglia
I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events -- the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed -- I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
- Milo Ventimiglia
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Image of Marc Bolan
Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.
- Marc Bolan
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Image of Mick Taylor
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
- Mick Taylor
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Image of Mick Taylor
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
- Mick Taylor
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Image of Mercy Otis Warren
The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.
- Mercy Otis Warren
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Image of Benjamin Whichcote
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
- Benjamin Whichcote
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Image of Chris Ware
Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I cant account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.
- Chris Ware
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Image of Michelle Trachtenberg
I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love
- Michelle Trachtenberg
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Image of George Jean Nathan
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.
- George Jean Nathan
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Image of Kate Douglas Wiggin
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Image of Torquato Tasso
A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.
- Torquato Tasso
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Image of Cynthia Heimel
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
- Cynthia Heimel
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Image of Lisa Scottoline
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.
- Lisa Scottoline
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Image of Prince William
When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.
- Prince William
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Image of Anne Rivers Siddons
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.
- Anne Rivers Siddons
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Image of Doris Grumbach
one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.
- Doris Grumbach
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Image of Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.
- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
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Image of E. T. A. Hoffmann
Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Image of Meg Tilly
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.
- Meg Tilly
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Image of Nicholas Breton
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
- Nicholas Breton
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Image of Mary Heaton Vorse
If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.
- Mary Heaton Vorse
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Image of Benjamin Haydon
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
- Benjamin Haydon
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Image of Jules Michelet
The way to gain a friend is to be one
- Jules Michelet
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Image of Philibert Joseph Roux
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
- Philibert Joseph Roux
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Image of Themistocles
May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.
- Themistocles
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Image of Sophie Irene Loeb
Never expect too much from a friend and you will never want for one.
- Sophie Irene Loeb
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Image of Vittorio Alfieri
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
- Vittorio Alfieri
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Image of Marita Golden
Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.
- Marita Golden
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Image of Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.
- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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Image of Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.
- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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Image of Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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Image of Robert Hewison
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.
- Robert Hewison
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Image of George Weinberg
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
- George Weinberg
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Image of Joan Frank
I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in.
- Joan Frank
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Image of Shane West
I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides
- Shane West
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Image of Shane West
By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group
- Shane West
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Image of Willow Bay
For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.
- Willow Bay
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Image of Anne Stevenson
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
- Anne Stevenson
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