Three Friends Quotes

• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, True Friend, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

  Michelle Obama

  Journey, Three, Looks

  FaceBook post by Michelle Obama from Jan 28, 2011

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• One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

  Mindy Kaling

  Friendship, Inspiring, Fun

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.43, Three Rivers Press

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• One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Real, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Teacher, Fate, Giving

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.556, Macmillan

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• We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Thinking, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.166, Columbia University Press

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• They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded.

  Russell Banks

  Strong, Confused, Heart

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• There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Dog, Money

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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• I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Office, Three

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• It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Song, Hero, Home

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.

  Edward Norton

  Ambition, Fundraising, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Britney's a very beautiful human being. After I worked with her, I realized that there was a reason why she was the most popular pop artist over so many other pop artists at that time who were more talented, had better voices. And it was because of her heart, her soulShe had the most amazing energy and was always positive and a very discreet person. We were young, too, and got to make a movie about three friends on a road trip. It was so much fun!

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Fun, Heart

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• Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

  Carolyn Wells

  Next Week, Two, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them

  Eugene Talmadge

  Three, World, Vote

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• Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.

  Mason Cooley

  Morning, Stupid, Mean

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