Friend Quotes

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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Charles de Gaulle

It pays to know the enemy — not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Friedrich Nietzsche

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Satan met his ancient friend
With more hauteur, as might an old Castilian
Poor noble meet a mushroom rich civilian.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Henry David Thoreau

We later learned that all the nineteen passengers in the non-smoking compartment had been killed. When the plane had hit the water a hole had been made in the plane and the water had rushed in. I had told a friend at Oslo who was finding me a place that he must find me a place where I could smoke, remarking jocularly, 'If I cannot smoke, I shall die'. Unexpectedly, this turned out to be true.

Bertrand Russell

Red Dog smiled. 'I would like you to meet my friends Mr Sitting Bull, Mr Poisoned Buffalo, and Chief Running Skunk-Backwards.'
'Sitting Bull's a name I know,' Yogi remarked, shaking hands.
'Oh, I'm not one of those Sitting Bulls,' Mr Sitting Bull said.

Ernest Hemingway

I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend's face means making contact.

Diana, Princess of Wales

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Henry David Thoreau

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Jean de La Bruyère

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if, in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere — although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Shall I ever marvel enough at animals? This one is exceptional, like a friend one will never replace, or a perfect lover.

Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats, and that aggression would meet its own response. And it is in the light of that history that every nation today should know, be he friend or foe, that the United States has both the will and the weapons to join free men in standing up to their responsibilities.

John F. Kennedy

It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Henry David Thoreau

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory

'I don't want him,' said Rabbit. 'But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.'

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Leonardo da Vinci