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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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