Best Quotes of All Time | Funny Quotes | Quote of the Day | Links | About

Marlene Dietrich Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship Inspirational Favorite-Quotes

Friends Quotes and Sayings

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

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

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

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"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 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

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

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain

I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf

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

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

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

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

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

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

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

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

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

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

We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

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

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

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

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

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

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

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

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

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

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

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

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

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

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

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

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

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

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

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

Thank you for visiting these quotes and sayings. See more "Best Quotes."

Please sign up to receive my Free Daily Quotes Email on the form below.

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie