Friends Quotes

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

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

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

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.

O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

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.

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

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.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.