Friends Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Friends
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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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
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
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
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 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
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
"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
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
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
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- 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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- 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
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- 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 have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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