Quotes about friend
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“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Source: Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.”

Ben Jonson Cynthia's Revels

Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act III, scene ii

Happy, Happiness

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 499
Misattributed

Love, Angels

“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Love, Law

“Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Variant: Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Forgetting

“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

Idea

“Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his fighting. Even the Ares kids thought he was pretty cool. Hey, show up with an army of undead warriors to save the day, and suddenly you're everybody's best friend.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Fight

“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: Circle of Flight

Friendship, Time

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

As quoted in The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009) by Deborah Norville, p. 65

Deep, Friendship, Relationship, Cute

“No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“They had almost reached their horses when Neal's unmistakable drawl sounded through the stable: "Joren is so pretty. Say, Garvey, are you two friends because you can have him?”

Tamora Pierce book Page

Source: Page

Horse

“The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.”

Malorie Blackman book Boys Don't Cry

Source: Boys Don't Cry

Love, Life, World, Family

“Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Life, Time, Fight

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor

Love, Money

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

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

Book VIII, 1155a.5
Nicomachean Ethics
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

“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 (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

People

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

Hope

“And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies… it’s just a word.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Life, Thinking

“Kennedy was not impressed by military objections. The Bay of Pigs had taught the President to distrust the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The first advice I’m going to give my successor,” he once said to his journalist friend Ben Bradlee, “is to watch the generals and to avoid feeling that because they were military men their opinions on military matters were worth a damn.”4 During the missile crisis Kennedy courteously and consistently rejected the Joint Chiefs’ bellicose recommendations. “These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor,” he said. “If we…do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.”5”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Source: Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Men, Feeling

“If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.”

Maxwell Maltz (1889–1975) Plastic surgeon, self-help author

Variant: If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Widely attributed to Emerson on the internet, this actually originates with "What is Success?” http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/Ephemera/Success.html by Bessie Anderson Stanley in Heart Throbs Volume Two (1911) edited by Joseph Mitchell Chapple. Misattributed

Life, Children, People, World

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) American teacher and writer

Misattributed
Source: Concord Days

Friendship

“Jace shook his blond head in exasperation.
"You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem

Life, Freedom, Fight

“I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La!

Way

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 56
The Gay Science (1882)

Painting, Happiness

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”

Eleanor Roosevelt My Day

My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62

Money, Faith

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

The Municipal Gallery Revisited http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1659/, st. 7 Last Poems (1936-1939) Variant: Think where man's glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends. Context: You that would judge me, do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.

For Men, Thinking

“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 (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Dreams

“A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.
In that case, I’m not only your enemy, I’m your nightmare.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?”

Lemmy Kilmister (1945–2015) British singer-songwriter

Life, People, Sadness, Shoe

“I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

People

“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Truth

“Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.”

Kristin Cast book Betrayed

Source: Betrayed

“What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute--the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words--we can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

Love, God, People, World

“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”

Nicole Richie (1981) American television personality, musician, actress, and author

Birthday, Family, Friendship, Valentine's Day

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Beauty

“If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working. He who goes to trends and tells his troubles when he feels like that loses part of his manliness, part of the best that's in him; your friends can only be those who themselves struggle against it, who raise your activity by their own example of action.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Quote in his letter from Drenthe, The Netherlands, Oct. 1883, 'Van Gogh's Letters', http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/13/336.htm 1880s, 1883

Feeling, Boy, Silence, Parting

“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Win Friends and Influence People

“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 (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur

“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

Henry Kissinger: The White House Years, quoted from Dinesh D'Souza: What's so great about America http://books.google.com/books?id=tFcDN5D1SLQC&pg=PA164&dq=kissinger+america+friends+only+interests&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=50&as_brr=0&ei=_UCDSs7YA6fuygTH3LTiCg&hl=sv#v=onepage&q=kissinger%20america%20friends%20only%20interests&f=false. This echoes Lord Palmerston's words: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual". 1980s

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

His response when "accused of treating his opponents with too much courtesy and kindness, and when it was pointed out to him that his whole duty was to destroy them", as quoted in More New Testament Words (1958) by William Barclay; either this anecdote or Lincoln's reply may have been adapted from a reply attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund: :* Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?” ::* "Daily Facts" in The Family Magazine Vol. IV (1837), p. 123 http://books.google.de/books?id=aW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=destroy; also quoted as simply in "Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?" in The Sociable Story-teller (1846) Disputed

Friendship, Powerful, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Books, Reading, Personality

“When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

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

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“I remained standing in the middle of the room, swaying on my feet as though I had received a blow. I thought of my life and saw what it had been. No one could swim against such a current of mud. I had been a man so horrible that he could have no friend. But wasn't that, I asked myself, because I had always been incapable of wearing a disguise? If all men went through life with unmasked faces, as I had done for half a century, one might be surprised to find how little difference there was between them. But, in fact, no one lives with his face uncovered, no one. Most men ape greatness or nobility. Though they do not know it, they conform to certain fixed types, literary or other. This the saints know, and they hate and despise themselves because they see themselves with unclouded eyes. I should not have been so universally condemned had I not been so defenseless, so open, and so naked.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author

Source: Viper's Tangle

Life, Men, Hate, Universe

“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Star, Laughter, Sleep

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Motto Book (1907).
Variant: Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators… The land is one organism.”

Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist

"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
1930s
Context: Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

Love, Hate, Game

“The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.”

Tamora Pierce book Cold Fire

Source: Cold Fire

Thinking, Sleep, Personality, Night

“In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend…
I'm gonna be your friend.
In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side…
I'll be by your side.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

Sea

“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

Antonin Sertillanges (1863–1948) French philosopher

Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Hope

“In his early twenties, a man started collecting paintings, many of which later became famous: Picasso, Van Gogh, and others. Over the decades he amassed a wonderful collection. Eventually, the man’s beloved son was drafted into the military and sent to Vietnam, where he died while trying to save his friend. About a month after the war ended, a young man knocked on the devastated father’s door. “Sir,” he said, “I know that you like great art, and I have brought you something not very great.” Inside the package, the father found a portrait of his son. With tears running down his cheeks, the father said, “I want to pay you for this.ℍ “No,” the young man replied, “he saved my life. You don’t owe me anything.ℍ The father cherished the painting and put it in the center of his collection. Whenever people came to visit, he made them look at it. When the man died, his art collection went up for sale. A large crowd of enthusiastic collectors gathered. First up for sale was the amateur portrait. A wave of displeasure rippled through the crowd. “Let’s forget about that painting!” one said. “We want to bid on the valuable ones,” said another. Despite many loud complaints, the auctioneer insisted on starting with the portrait. Finally, the deceased man’s gardener said, “I’ll bid ten dollars.ℍ Hearing no further bids, the auctioneer called out, “Sold for ten dollars!” Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But then the auctioneer said, “And that concludes the auction.” Furious gasps shook the room. The auctioneer explained, “Let me read the stipulation in the will: “Sell the portrait of my son first, and whoever buys it gets the entire art collection. Whoever takes my son gets everything.ℍ It’s the same way with God Almighty. Whoever takes his Son gets everything.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President

Life, God, War, People

“I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

Life, Learning

“You and I will always be friends."

"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Books, Forgiveness

“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Sad, Life

“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Love, Books, Reading

“All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 3: A Free Man's Worship Context: Such... but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built. Context: That Man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins – all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.

Age

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

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Hell

“Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

Source: Mr Gilfil's Love Story

Question, Animals

“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Sister

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Heart, Hurt

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Life, Learning

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Source: Hamlet (1600–1)

Falseness, Night

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Success, Success, Heart

“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Forgiveness

“Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.”

Herta Müller book The Land of Green Plums

Source: The Land of Green Plums

Women, Hate

“In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend… I'm gonna be your friend!”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

“Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Sister, Chance, Heart

“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Time

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”

Tad Williams (1957) novelist

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”

Love, Way, Home, Learning

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”

Sidney Sheldon book The Other Side of Midnight

Source: The Other Side of Midnight

Success

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

Stephen King book It

Source: It (1986), Ch. 16 : Eddie's Bad Break, §8
Context: Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends — maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

People, Heart, Housing

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: The Complete Poems

Books

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Friendship, Relationship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“… every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.”

Orhan Pamuk book Snow

Source: Snow

Secret, Star, Heart, Personality

“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

Lie, Grass, Time

“I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

“When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Harvest Moon

Lie

“I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercised regularly.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source Undetermined in Everyone's Mark Twain (1972) compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, p. 161
Disputed

Exercises

“He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim

Source: The Passionate Pilgrim

Faith, Sleep, Help, Heart

“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Hurt

“Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Source: Life Is Worth Living

Books, World, Idea, Madness

“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.”

Daniel Handler (1970) American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket

World, Feeling

“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

Personality

“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield

Birthday, Love, Books, Wine

“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”

John Cassian (360–435) Christian monk and theologian

Death, Chance, Time, Parting

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Friendship, Missing You, Goodbye, For Friend

“Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

As quoted in Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography (1986) by Robert A. Caro and William Knowlton Zinsser. Also quoted in Truman by David McCullough (1992), p. 44, New York: Simon & Schuster.-
Context: You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right … Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly, but firmly with all your classmates; you will find it the policy which wears best. Above all do not appear to others what you are not.

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

“Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

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