Friend Quotes

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To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him—two.

But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

Robert Louis Stevenson

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them — a diminishing number in my case.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you.... Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Francis de Sales

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori

I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Nicholas Breton

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal.

Bruce Jay Friedman

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Sarah Orne Jewett

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

None of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Lady Randolph Churchill

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty—to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Agatha Christie