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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- the movie The Godfather, Part II
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
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.
- Oscar Wilde
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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