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Friends Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Friends

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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

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

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

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

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

 

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

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

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

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

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

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

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

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

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

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose love. Choose to release all resentments.
Forgive everyone. Choose to release all regrets.
Forgive yourself for all decisions that you have ever made
that didn't work out as you hoped.
Forgive yourself for any financial decisions
that didn't meet your expectations.
Release your regrets if you choose
the "wrong" spouse or the "wrong" career.
Today, choose love.
Choose to love yourself.
Choose to love your life.
Choose to love all the friends, family, co-workers,
acquaintances, and others who share your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I confessed recently to an old friend,
"I realized I was looking at you,
in your visit, through old glasses.
Speaking old words.
Telling old stories.
I realize that in my life I've made so many
physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up."
Time for my spirit to look at my friend
through the new glasses of current life experiences.
Old friends are precious.
They become even more treasured when they are wrapped
in the currentness of life experiences
and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley


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