Friends Quotes

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

~ Abraham Lincoln

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

~ Brian Mulroney

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

~ Alan Clark

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

~ Phil Crane

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

~ H. Jackson Brown

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

True friends stab you in the front.

~ Oscar Wilde

There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.

~ William Butler Yeats

Friends are born, not made.

~ Henry Adams

My friends are my estate.

~ Emily Dickinson

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

~ Washington Irving

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

~ Saint Francis De Sales

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

~ Marlene Dietrich

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

~ Mao Zedong

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

~ Virginia Woolf

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

~ Brooke Elliott

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

~ Wendi Deng Murdoch

He who hath many friends hath none.

~ Aristotle

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

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

~ Epicurus

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

~ Samuel Pepys

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

~ Barack Obama

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

~ Alice Miller

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

~ Charles De Lint

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

~ Hill Harper

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

~ Frankie Valli

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

~ Major Taylor

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

~ Pietro Aretino

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

~ Dave Blood

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

~ Oscar Wilde

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

~ Courteney Cox

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

~ George Santayana

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

~ Sophocles