Quotation Explorer - 'Friends'

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends - John Chrysostom

Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies; the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always! - Mehmet Murat ildan

THOUGH you are in your shining days,Voices among the crowdAnd new friends busy with your praise,Be not unkind or proud,But think about old friends the most:Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes. - W.B. Yeats

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. - Oscar Wilde

Life will have less drama if you keep your circle small. You don’t have to be friends with anyone. Pick people who will influence you. Pick the people who share the same interests and radiate the positivity that you have. - Dembe Michael

Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends. - Elizabeth George

With an enemy like that, who needs friends? - Rick Yancey

Negative people enjoy the company of fake friends, but a positive person disowns them. - Anuj Somany

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. - Tahereh Mafi

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. - Tim Cahill

True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way. - Julie-Anne

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . - Aristophanes

Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.

Isn't it funny how we all will end up? Best friends today, communicating via internet tomorrow. Crush today, dancing at their weddings tomorrow. - Manasa Rao Saarloos

Life without friends is just like a land that is barren. - Babu Rajan

It doesn't matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, but God's love for you will remain the same. Embrace it, Cherish it, and Spread it everywhere you go. Let your light shine brightly for all the world to see. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. - Benjamin Franklin

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. - Abraham Lincoln

Greater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

For friends that always pick you up when you fallAnd catapult you when you want to fly. - S.L. Jennings

It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life. - Nash

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law... - Martin Luther

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings. - Anonymous

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light. - Shannon L. Alder

If we really want to know, who we are and recognize our identity, we have to find out the identity of the others. By making friends with the others, we are able to make friends with ourselves. At that moment, we can sense how everything falls into place. ( Steps in the unknown" ) - Erik Pevernagie

Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves. - Sheryl Sandberg

A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships. - Anthony Liccione

Reading brings us unknown friends - Honoré de Balzac

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. - Hilaire Belloc

It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the person - Pawan Mehra

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God! - George Whitefield

Why you should fear of being abandoned by friends who 'hypocritical'. While the around you have a friend who 'sincerely'. - Intan Hartiwan

Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? What about the one who molded us out of the earth itself, who formed us like clay, and instilled within us the very breath of life that shaped the universe? - James D. Maxon

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles William Eliot

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist. - Daisaku Ikeda

The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble? - Tami Hoag

Be grateful when you have friends who care for you, it's a blessing to see nice happy people around us. - Auliq Ice

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

The best gift that we can give to our friends is true love and sincere appreciation. - Debasish Mridha

If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. - Alice Duer Miller

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Friends are family members we have a choice over. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My old friends don't know the new me and my new friends don't understand my history - PS Juneja

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Why do all your friends talk like books? - Pamela Dean

If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they’re better off dead. - Susan Spann

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. - Jesus of Nazareth

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves. - Steve Jobs

One of the most difficult things is to be friends with someone you love so immensely. It hurts. And the worst part is, you have to veil your pain with a smile. And every bit of that smile hurts too. - Rohit Sharma

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends. - It's a Wonderful Life

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Friends with spiteful hearts and thousand eyes of evil, mock not my slumbering glory. I just might be the next in line to gain access to the secret fount of good riches. - Darmie Orem

Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another- this takes time. You need to be willing to let your friends know the real you, but you don't want to spill your guts out the first time you're out to lunch. - Irene S. Levine

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. - Phyllis Diller

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Choose thoughts like how you choose your friends, only the right one's. - Wordions

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. - Michael A. Stackpole

I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life. - Eliot Wigginton

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. - Lurlene McDaniel

Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world. - M.F. Moonzajer

Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim. - Uzoma Nnadi

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. - Eddie Cantor

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation. - Sean Covey

When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon. - Ray Bradbury

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. - Daphne du Maurier

A life dedicated to family, friends, community, and whole humanity is a life well spent. - Ahmet Adam Asar

Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you at your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues. - Virginia Heffernan

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.

As change is a constant – as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear - the one thing that we will always remain the closest to, will be our minds and our bodies. - lauren klarfeld

It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend. - John Paul Warren

The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies. - R.A.Delmonico

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13) - John the Evangelist

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. - Hilaire Belloc

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. - Peggy Noonan

It's when you find your life is at its lowest point that you discover who your friends truly are. - C.S. Woolley

Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [...] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them. - Stephen King

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - Jean de La Bruyère

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard

Through the twist and turns of life, I find myself so grateful for my friends. Even though sometimes the days can seem so dark, and my heart can feel so hurt, I am never alone; my friends are beside me. - Steve Maraboli

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. - Ernest Hemingway

We undress ourselves in many ways when we become close friends - Andrews

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones - John Lennon

I'm holding a super-expandable energy-powered towel. I've made friends with space hamsters. I think we've stretched believability rather far, don't you? - Michael S. Atkinson

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends. - David Hume

A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship. - Amit Kalantri

I think that in life you don't need too much; you need friends, you need to do what you like doing. - Zaha Hadid

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. - Zoë Marriott

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having. - Susie Derkins

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant. - Stephen King

I want you back here now. I want you next to me now. I cannot believe that my family, your brother, all our friends, and an entire police force can't keep tabs on one twenty-six year old graphic designer who thinks he's fuckin' Batman.--Detective Sam Kage in A Matter Of Time (vol 2 or part 4) - Mary Calmes

You and all your little friends are fucked. - Joseph J. Capriccioso

We owe it to our husband or wife, our fellow workers, our children, our friends, indeed to everyone who comes into our lives, to be as happy as we can be. - Dennis Prager

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul. - Steve Maraboli

With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again. - Tori Spelling

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends. - Virginia Woolf

I am wealthy in my friends. - William Shakespeare

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal. - Ann Landers

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!! - Eiichiro Oda

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. - Dame Edna Everage

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. - Publilius Syrus

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Even my best friends are my enemies. - Oɴʏx

fans are just friends and family I haven't met... or wrote about yet - Janna Hill

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

People first become friends, and then they love each other. - Priest Nicolae Tanase

Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals. - Amit Kalantri

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. - John Burroughs

I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened. Then why am I so sad? - Lena Dunham

In life you have friends and enemies, both can motivate you to be better. - Coleen Innis

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

I talk to friends of mine who are now teaching; they've graduated and they have classrooms. And I get really jealous, and I get really excited talking to them about their classrooms, and I want one. I think I'd be happy.

Your job won't take care of you when you'll be sailing through loneliness or going though a tragedy in life. Your friends will. Make good friends and stay in touch. - Chanda Kaushik

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. - H. L. Mencken

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time. - Stephanie Seymour

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. - Frederick Buechner

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. - Marc Chagall

True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others. - Ellen J. Barrier

Friends are better than a lot of wealth. - joannellie eleeza

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. - Thucydides

When a man only rings you late at night, when he only wants to see you late at night, when he doesn't take you out for dinner, or introduce you to his friends, or spend any time or attention on you, then this is not a relationship. This is sex. - Jane Green

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain

Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!! - Hiro Mashima

Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. - John Kerry

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always. - L.M. Fields

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. - Mark Twain

For once in life i want no one to judge me ,not my parents not my friends no one..For once in life i want to do what i want and live everyday like no tomorrow will come .For once in life i want to know the purpose we are here . I know its not money, no religion ,no rich and poor - kanav sharma

Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun; one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night. - Munia Khan

Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor? - Sunday Adelaja

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. - Marilyn Ferguson

Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you. - Wil Wheaton

Life is for memories, full of fun, with friends, families and joyful sun. - Debasish Mridha

Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - Bible

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quite often you look for answers and strength in friends (supposed 2b) around you, without realizing All the true strength and honest answers come from within!!! - v filipa ketteridge

Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen. - Samuel Paterson

Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most. - Alyson Noel

Friendship is a wonderful thing.True friends are a treasure to hunt.Making a lot a friends does not make any sense Sincerity,,loyalty and understanding are the key factors in a meaningful friendship. Only very few possess all these qualities.And only very few are blessed with true friends - Deepti

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. - Edgar Watson Howe

I think, your shadow don't leave in darkness. In fact, it gets as close as you that there is no difference between you and your shadow. At that time you both exists as one. Shadows never leave. Real love & friends are like shadows, they never leave you and always there. Not even in your dark days. - Qasim Chauhan

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

GreenHollyWood asked me "How I sleep?", after all, after this horror and terror. The truth is that I close the one eye 1-2 seconds go and then the other... and I sleep. To to don't forget, if we will be friends I enjoy the horror..., I like to see myself scared!? - Deyth Banger

Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy! - Israelmore Ayivor

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer. - Ade Santi

Paradox /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith. - Shannon L. Alder

Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Angels are showing up in our lives as friends. We just have to recognize them. - Debasish Mridha

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. - Dale Carnegie

I don't trust him. We're friends. - Bertolt Brecht

The people you work with are just people you were thrown together with. Y'know, you don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them thanyou do your friends or your family. - Tim Canterbury

There are two words that you should use frequently in your youth: ´sorry´ and ´thank-you´. Use the first one as often as possible, so that on your death bed all that you have to say to your friends is ´thank-you!´. - Robin Jones Gunn

My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wealth wins temporary allies;love wins permanent friends. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Make friends not best friends,Make a crush not a lover,Because not everyone are meant to be with you always and when they leave or when they make you leave ,you are the one going to suffer the most.. - Akash B Chandran

If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean. - Zoe Rosenberg

A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with. - Danielle Johnson

Some of my friends are not being a friend of me... - Jeevagan Nagarajan

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. - Helen Thompson

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech Proverb

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come? - Judy Blume

Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life. - Errol Anthony Smythe

When something serious happens in your life, something bad comes out of it but also something good. You get to see who is real. Who your true friends are, and who truly loves you.  - Angie karan

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. - John Lennon

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too late for example it's nigh or you are outside with friends spend few minutes and write this down you could make something incrediable. - Deyth Banger

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them. - Debasish Mridha

My friends are my enimies, my magi, my gods, my life... - Mykyta Isagulov

We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Good friends are divine instruments. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity. - Matshona Dhliwayo

To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends. - Cassandra Clare

The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends. - Nicole Richie

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary,and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page. - Theodore Volgoff

God will give me the place where I don't know, but I want to go to heaven because there is my friends are waiting for me. - Tanmaya Guru

My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget! - Latif Mercado

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Old friends are the best friends. - John Cameron Smith

Celebrate true friends. They are a part of you that always sparkles. - Amy Leigh Mercree

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. - Alfred Tennyson

Laws of attraction could build a strong relationship among married couples or friends. - Saaif Alam

She didn't need friends; she needed to be a bigger bitch.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon. - Kahoko Yamada

HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex. - Ambrose Bierce

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. - Eleanor Roosevelt

To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged. - Emma Watson

You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people with companions. - Henning Mankell

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends. - Lord Chesterfield

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

There are literally billions of people on earth. There are some that won’t admit it, but all of those people want friends. - Daniel Willey

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers. - Walter Scott

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

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Doesn't need help of friends to climb to the peak, the need to have lofty aspirations. - Tanmaya Guru

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. - Herbert Hoover

Books create readers; conversation creates friends. - Marty Rubin

A smile you gift is a smile you earn… Gift a smile to your parents, friends, or even a stranger. - Akansh Malik

Despite I may be surrounded by many friends, there is not one that interests me as much as you do - Auliq Ice

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. - Tim Fargo

I am very happy with all my friends and co-workers, because if they don’t remember me in their happy times or in their success. However, they never forget me if they are in a problem or need my help… - Nutan Bajracharya

Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends. - Beth Bernobich

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you. - Ai Yazawa

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. - Pierre Charron

Choose your friends wisely. There are some who would push you to the top; There are others who would keep on pushing you, over the cliff. - Andrea L'Artiste

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life's work. - David Petersen

Some of our friends put our enemies out of work. - Jett

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends. - Matshona Dhliwayo

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. - Chinese proverb

I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times. - Terraine Francois

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered. - Carmela Dutra

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. - George Santayana

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. - Cicero

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

Everything have a foundation, even your fame; It started as little support from your family and immediate friends; Don't forget that because they saw the raw talent before everyone saw the polished act. Stay True instead of being a fame fool. - Unarine Ramaru

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home. - Ernest Morgan

At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious and haters, and when you reach to the top you have new friends and family you never met or thought existed. - Anthony Liccione

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Good Friends Don't Let You Do Stupid Things.. Alone - Ain Eineziz

Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends... - Mykyta Isagulov

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

See, I am very dependent... on beauty and peace of the world... on loyalty of friends... on love in families... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all... - Galina Nelson

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. - Mark Twain

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies. - Teresa of Ávila

once you stop communicating as much as you use to, your friendship would not last. people change and people make new friends. - Karina Celestine

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do. - Quintus Ennius

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink! - J.K. Rowling

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends - John Lennon

Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either. - Greg L. Alston

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)[Said on his deathbed] - Ludwig van Beethoven

Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back. - Saru Singhal

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? - Walter Kirn

God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory. - Ezra Taft Benson

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh

Books are the most tolerant of friends. - Richard Paul Evans

Friends are life's ingredient that makes every sad moment sweeter, every difficult time easier, and every normal moment extraordinary. - Johnathan Jena

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends. - Ambrose Bierce

I want we to be friends, not to follow you.I want you to stop the lies, it's not awesome. - Deyth Banger

You can tell a good friends in bad times - Beta Metani' Marashi

It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance! - Salman Al Odah

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself. - Kate Hudson

Just a simple prayer today, for those who are sick or going through darkness of any kind. Dear God, we ask that you place your healing hands on the shoulders of our friends and loved ones, who are suffering and relieve them of these hardships, in Jesus name. Amen. - Ron Baratono

When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground. - Michael Bassey Johnson

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends. - Ambrose Bierce

Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them. - David Nicholls

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think. - Aaron Swartz

Choose well the people around you, friends and everyone else around you. They can teach you lesson, some people give it like this other give it by the hard way. - Deyth Banger

One of my favorite things: good conversation with good friends. - Karen Salmansohn

Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the reasons to be good. Those who love you never lose touch, are always consistent, and unquestionable. - April Mae Monterrosa

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus

The day two girls or women can genuinely be friends to each other, we will see then no war, camouflaged or open, between the wife and her mother-in-law in any house. - Anuj Somany

You can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than in two years of trying to get people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations. - M.F. Moonzajer

The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me. - Debasish Mridha

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.But then perhaps this is what lovers are. - André Aciman

Hold on to those who are your true friends. - Debasish Mridha

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters. - Carla H. Krueger

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. - Jane Austen

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. - Willa Cather

Friends were hundred ,Kites were none ,This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred ,Friends are none,Sitting under the flaming sun. - Yash Gupta

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon

In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them. - Arvind Parashar

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me. - Lady Gaga

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. - Shirley Maclaine

If your best friends do not read books, they read you. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. - Sylvia Plath

When I didn't have friends, I had books. - Oprah Winfrey

choose your friends as wise as you choose your words in conversations (Ejump,2016) - Ejump Schiffler

Friends are forever but life is full of disapointments - Trinity J. Eidsness

We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial. - Raymond Joseph Teller

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you're alone is when you can count your friends. - Stephen Richards

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. - Stieg Larsson

Books create readers; conversation, friends - Marty Rubin

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. - Charles Dudley Warner

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed - Pablo

Love that is within you is also flowing through the hearts of your neighbors and friends. - Debasish Mridha

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. - Zig Ziglar

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go. - Edwin Arlington Robinson

When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever. - Debasish Mridha

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house! - Jennifer Wilson

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs

People around us are two types Friends and Frenemies,Adapt with the first type and pray for the second. - Mohammed Sekouty

To be friends.... or not... to be or not... to be or not.... - Deyth Banger

Since our yesterdays are gone and our tomorrows are never promised, TODAY I want to thank all my amazing friends and family for being in my life. - Steven Aitchison

Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology. - Sunday Adelaja

Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going. - Lik Hock Yap

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy! - Friedrich Schiller

You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant. - Michael Bassey Johnson

When wealth flees, untrue friends follow. - Thomas F. Shubnell

The friends who met here and embraced are gone,Each to his own mistake; - W.H. Auden

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends. - Darnell Lamont Walker

For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful. - John Williams

One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. - Thomas Fuller

You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be. - Martin Sheen

[Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the friends he cherished and wished to honor. - Eva Gabrielsson

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees. - Stormie Omartian

Success will teach you who your real friends are. - Germany Kent

Beware! Friends are like chameleons, for they can turn enemies overnight. - Auliq Ice

Make peace with your fears; after all, they are only imaginary friends. - Samer Chidiac

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful. - Johnny Ramone

When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist. - Emma Watson

But marriage is more than just two people. Marriages are a combination of two people, their closest family members, and the nearest and dearest of friends that enter that circle of love. - Sandi Gamble

Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind…just for you. - Toni Sorenson

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social interactions are required. - Cindy Ann Peterson

Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. - William Shakespeare

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. - Marcus Garvey

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends. - Mardy Grothe

Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing. - Justine Hail

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. - John F. Kennedy

One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer. - Ellen J. Barrier

A struggle with infuriated foes is always bearable, but God preserve us from the terrible battle with one's friends. Everything that is in us gets broken by it. - Nikolai Gogol

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters. - Henry David Thoreau

Being Friends with you was great but now we will be lovers. - V.Kuotsu

We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color. - Paul Bamikole

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change - 50 Cent

You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all. - Primadonna Angela

Man have to have friends even in hell. - Miguel de Cervantes

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends. - Scott Westerfeld

Friends; the more, the less! - Raheel Farooq

And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. - Chris Weitz

Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don't smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your joy is divine. - Israelmore Ayivor

Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities. - Allen L. Roland

Truth can win you many enemies, but it also rewards you with some die-hard friends - Alok Jagawat

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. - Jack Layton

A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends. - Santosh Kalwar

If somebody is going to kill me or hurt me..., let's be the enemy not my friends! - Deyth Banger

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. - Unknown

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. - Giotto di Bondone

I don't have to many friends, but that's ok. I choice to have it that way, It's pretty liberating. - Cliff Hannold

If I left any good or planted any flowers among thorns, the credit goes to God and my many substantial friends. - Reverend Ada Caston Slaton Bonds

My friends are my estate. - Emily Dickinson

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life. - Jesse Holdeman

Thank God, the greatest things are freely giving; life, love, joy, smiles, hugs, inner peace, blessings, family, friends, nature….! - Lailah Gifty Akita

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother? - Shannon L. Alder

Newspapers should have no friends.

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. - John Keats

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends. - Addison Mizner

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. - Seth Brown

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication. - Idries Shah

Show me your friends and I'll show you your future. - Moosa Rahat

Why do others see the need to change me my stringers,teachers even my own family they all seem to find something wrong with the only ones that seem to completely get me are my friends - pikmin100xx

I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come to terms with your right to be alone. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

You have thousands of friends and all of them will be part of your history but not with your destiny. - Evan

When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends. - Diana Jaber

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. - Charlotte Bronte

If your best friends do not read books, they reads you. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My friends, Mountains can only be moved when a coalition is made between the lips that pray & the hand that helps - Mwirigi LG

Yes, love your family, and also love your friends. For some friends are truly family. Love the people in your life. Love them without measure. And don’t worry about spoilage. Potatoes spoil, people don’t spoil. - Steve Goodier

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?' I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. - Matt Groening

If you’re truly friends, then you don’t just offer a little whisp of your love. You unzip your chest, reach in and pull your heart out and says, It’s all yours—please keep it beating. - Toni Sorenson

I have friends, they love me, the use me, they leave.This has always been a cycle.Until you came and ruined everything. - Anonymous

I remember friends from wars all but we forgot. All of them distilled into each wound we caught. Those wounds are all painful places where we fought. Battles never left behind, ones we never sought. What is it that we spent and what was it we bought? - Frank Herbert

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. - Seth Godin

Reading brings us unknown friends. — Honoré de Balzac - Susan Parker Rosen

The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends. - Steve Maraboli

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. - Aeschylus

Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed... - Shan O' Connor

If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say. - Hiro Mashima

You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there. - Leeland Mooring Lead Singer of the Band "leeland"

You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE. - John Paul Warren

I have people I call friends; but how many will be there till the end?When death comes knocking at my door; will there be someone there I can call my friend? - Jordan Hoechlin

Good values that are cherished,bind and attract both friends and enemies to greatness of life. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

Making friends is easy but sustaining friendship is difficult... - Debolina Bhawal

Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off - Gerard Way

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need. - Ha Jin

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. - Ron Chernow

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion. - Dalai Lama XIV

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there. - Habeeb Akande

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. - Arka Pain

Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends. - Otis Chandler

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. - Thomas Aquinas

And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each other. Everyone says things to each other, the television, your parents, your friends, that’s all we are, is a collection of intermingling ideas as a collective. - Matt Bellamy

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own. - Whipplesnaith

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do. - Alexander Pope

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human. - Stephen Richards

For all the things we do in our lives and the people that surround us, its family and those few loyal friends that God has blessed us with. - Ron Baratono

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.

We need to let our family and our friends know this truth—God is love, and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him. —2 Nephi 26:33 - M. Russell Ballard

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end. - Gabrielle Zevin

I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself. - Zoe Sugg

I always thought loving someone is the greatest feeling, but I realized that loving a friend is even better. We lose people we love but we never lose true friends. True Friendship is something which happens 24/7, no special day is needed to celebrate that feeling. Anywayz happy Friendship Day !! - KakkZ

Dream and act HUGE my friends; for to do less is to deny who you are. And live with BOLD conviction – as you move forcefully into the certainty of your great success! - Christopher Babson

We throw stones though we live in glass houses,We talk shit like its a cross to bare.You're only relevant 'til you get older.Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer - Alex Gaskarth

Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves. - Joshunda Sanders

Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to find you at your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments, errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues. - Virginia Heffernan

May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies. - Virchand Gandhi

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING. - Jay Woodman

Two kinds of people have many friends, one with bank balance and other with boldness. - Amit Kalantri

Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don't care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so. - Louisa May Alcott

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends - Milan Kundera

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. - Fish

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle

I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me. - Oscar Levant

Remember how it is written of Job, The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when he prayed for those unfriendly friends of his, then the Lord smiled upon him, and loosed his captivity - Charles Spurgeon

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. - Truman Capote

I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional. When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt

And say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats

People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions. - Amit Kalantri

You can have a lot of friends, but do you know your close friends. - Vinnie Fisher

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln

The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends - Maggie Stiefvater

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. - Mahatma Gandhi

Someone said: friends are the thiefs of time. I shall add: of time, freedom, life; and givers of best memories, brightest moments, true feelings. - Mykyta Isagulov

If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life. - Sunday Adelaja

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you. - Jim George

I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides. - Diane Von Furstenberg

Friends are a special kind of love because they are there for one another like no other relationship can be. - Danielle Barone

Pigs should not make friends with butchers. One must choose one's friends wisely. - Erik Pevernagie

Safe in the sovereignty of the Godhead, we can count on the fact that WE, rather than just our friends, enemies, or circumstances, will be transformed. - Brian Eshleman

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. - J. K. Rowling

Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends. - Shannon L. Alder

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. - Catherine Drinker Bowen

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you. - Eleanor Brownn

To gain height, lose all your tall friends. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends... - Virginia Alison

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. - Edgar Watson Howe

A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone. - James Clavell

Even the best of friends need time apart. - Mark Heath

My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me. - Dorothy Allison

People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry! - C. JoyBell C.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. - Allen Ginsberg

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function. - David Foster

Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. - Walt Whitman

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words. - Shannon L. Alder

You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first... - Evelyn Waugh

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

I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one. - Euripides

I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers. - Oprah Winfrey

Real friends are not those who stop you from crying but those who cry with you. - samriddha

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream. - Melody Carstairs

Enemies can also be friends. - Wendy Zhang

Some people say beware of enemies. Some say beware of friends and some say beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim. - Uzoma Nnadi

Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere and loyal with their friends, family and teachings of their Creator. See everyone as equal and wish no harm on anyone - who are we to judge each other when we are being judged by our Creator. - Mizan Chaudhury

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.These were the friends who gave me my life. - R.A. Salvatore

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, here and now? - Fay Weldon

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me, - Charlotte Shane

best friends just don't leave your side - Blink-182

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort. - Virginia Woolf

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. - Socrates

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. - Edgar Watson Howe

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. - Mandy Hale

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. - Marilyn Manson

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others. - Sunday Adelaja

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right. - Saleem Sharma

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. - Rebecca West

I am often amused and sometimes amazed by the free-reign constructs of my mind. That is why I converse regularly with myself - I am one of my better friends... - Gavin Mills

Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Understand that friends come and go. But a precious few, who should hold on. - Baz Luhrmann

I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs. - Pansy Schneider-Horst

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society. - Saaif Alam

Cool posts and kind comments make friends. Think about others online. NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles

Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart. - C.G. Jung

I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now'. - Martijn Benders

I prefer friends who walks with me in the shade - because friends, who constantly splendor in the glow of the flash of photographers, and sometimes accompany me - at every turn in times of success, this species of friends are suspect to me. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves. - George R.R. Martin

Beauty, business, blogs, & bullshit...never a dull conversation with your friends you have tons in common with. - April Mae Monterrosa

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky. - S.E. Hinton

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone. - Charlotte Eriksson

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed] - Ludwig van Beethoven

Friends, try to understand 'what is what'!! - Saikat Narayan Dutta

144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand. - Chris Crutcher

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. - Helen Steiner Rice

How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me. - Sara Nelson

The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't there, take it like they aren't your friends, find other friends. This are fake! - Deyth Banger

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers. - Toni Bentley

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. - P.J. O'Rourke

You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick. - Carroll Bryant

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends. - David Brooks

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. - Moby

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open. - Matshona Dhliwayo

A horde of people around a person could be anyone except his friends, fans or followers; if they stay in, either online or offline, with him, but do not GENUINELY say or support the truths or facts with him. - Anuj Somany

If you have no friends, invent one! - Stephen Richards

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults. - Benjamin Franklin

Friends I would like to challenge you to do an experiment, in the privacy of your studies. Everywhere you see the name Jesus in the Bible, replace it with the word light and see what that does to you. - Sunday Adelaja

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Moshe Dayan

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor. - Joe Abercrombie

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in. - Lauren Myracle

If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep. - Lonely Island

Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends. - Deyth Banger

To have with somebody relationship or to be friends or something, you must make him nerves to feel nerves, then you should make him to feel comfortable - I got you, you just believed in this, you don't need to make him nerves. That's a joke!You must make him vulnerable so to possess him. - Deyth Banger

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. - S. Weir Mitchell

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. - Philip Green

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft... - Jim Morrison

We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate. - Shaun David Hutchinson

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens? - L.J. Smith

I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them - Abraham Lincoln

To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For rock solid friendship, never lie to your friends. - Saru Singhal

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. - Ana Monnar

To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman? - Confucius

People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves. - Seth Godin

Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations. - Adhish Mazumder

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits." -- Diary of a Country Priest - Georges Bernanos

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself. - Robert Schumann

If we take care of our neighbors,our neighbors will take care of us.If we take care of our friends,our friends will take care of us.If we take care of our family,our family will take care of us.If we take care of others,our God will take care of us. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. - Richard Bach

In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences. - Tina J. Richardson

A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends. - Todd Stocker

I wanted to see Chameleons, Then I saw my friends! - Sohail Umar

It's proper netiquette to add suggested friends to your social media accounts. NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me so much of themselves, helped me find so much of me, and always been there to support when I needed it most. #BandOfBrothers. - Ted Rubin

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity. - Zack Love

I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends. - Sher E Yazdan

Sometimes I think of rebuilding my friendship with old friends. But at the same time, there's a reason why we fell off. Shit happens, but life's good. - Manasa Rao Saarloos

My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence - John Paul Warren

Friends, the light has come to the earth. We now have no right any longer to be in any form of darkness, especially in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. - Sunday Adelaja

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. - Ann Richards

you get to know who your true friends are cause there will be lots of them around when times are easy.. and when times get so tough.. they will leave you no matter how.. - Marouane LAASSAFAR

i also say you can tell your true friends, by the ones who put a bucket by your bed when your drunk and going to be sick - (my quote - so proud) - J. Yates

The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms. - Rachel Bertsche

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Friends are the best anti-depressants; with only positive effects, no side-effects. - Piyush Kaviraj

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy - Mikhail Bakunin

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers. - George W. Bush

Friends hurt friends. They don’t mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love. - Toni Sorenson

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands. - Stefan Molyneux

Give your Friends Roses while they are still alive; don't wait until their funeral.-Robert L. Biehl (my dad) - Bobb Biehl

Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night. - A.E. Housman

It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers, - Hayley Williams

Children and rain, both are intimate friends. - Tanmaya Guru

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I loo. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to the gym. - Adele

Good friends, very good what's the equation motherfucker??? - Deyth Banger

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. - Helen Keller

I won't let my best friends do silly,stupid,annoying,funny things-WITHOUT ME!!!!!!!!!! - Azhly Antenor

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none. - James Boswell

Friends are born, not made. - Henry Adams

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party... - Bray Love

Not so long ago we were all a tightly knit group of friends. Too bad someone had ripped apart the stitches that held us together, unraveling the cozy blanket of our friendship and leaving just enough strands to hang ourselves with. - E.J. Stevens

Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. - Sylvia Plath

I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends. - Amit Kalantri

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. - Virginia Woolf

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. - Edna Buchanan

It's better to be friends with someone that is willing to be your friend than someone that doesn't. - PureDragonWolf

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. - Aristotle

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren’t bound to them by anything but love. - Sarah Manguso

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln

True friends celebrate your success and share your grief! - Sarah Tse

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart . - Stephen King

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. - George Ebers

...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition. - Evan D.G. Fraser

Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving in this lifetime, real love still lives. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful. - Paul Kalanithi

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone. - Maxwell Maltz

How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're here to work, not to make friends, - Tandec2016

I don't have many friends, but that's ok. I choice to have it that way, It's pretty liberating. - Cliff Hannold

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. - Helen Keller

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. - Juvenal

I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. - Logan Pearsall Smith

When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven, it is for us to follow it or not. - Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Mumford

What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting. - Lindsey Stirling

If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening. - Shannon L. Alder

Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own. But unlike ants they leave behind million smiles, uncountable memories. - Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. - Aristotle

I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall. - Mickey Mouse

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever - Dave Matthews Band

My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too. - Richie Norton

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town. - The Harvard Lampoon

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. - Axel Munthe

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. - Dorothy Parker

There's a reason my only friends are written words - Victoria Aveyard

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. - Dave Brenner

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul, and you know you have been blessed just to know them. - Ashley Rice

The greatest things are freely giving; life, love, joy, smiles, hugs, inner peace, blessings, family, friends, nature….! - Lailah Gifty Akita

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them. - Randa Abdel-Fattah

‎Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. - Vincent Van Gogh