Few Friends Quotes

• Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Relationship, Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

  Pablo Picasso

  Work, Lucky, Rich

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• I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

  Chris Ware

  Friends, Mom, Wife

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

  Shahrukh Khan

  Thinking, Circles, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Book

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• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Intimate Relationships

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94

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• When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.

  Susan Hayward

  Important, Remember, Remembered

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Made, Acquaintance

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• Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

  Jean Reno

  Real, People, 1960s

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• Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

  Antonio Porchia

  Suicide, Truth

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy

  "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.

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• I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out what made them tick, wondering whether I could trust them or not. I went to a lot of schools along the coast in California, made few friends and stayed with aunts, uncles and grandparents while my folks tried to make ends meet. It was tough. We had no money.

  Tobey Maguire

  Uncles, School, Aunt

  "Tobey's Lonely Childhood Will Help Him In Spider-Man Role" by wenn.com, January 31, 2001.

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• Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

  Joe Cocker

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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• I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Wine, America

  Benjamin Franklin (1815). “The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition”, p.199

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• If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.

  Michel Ocelot

  Moving, Trying, Needs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Heart, Character

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Honesty, Kindness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• I have a few friends who are models, but I know a lot of others as well. We usually go out for a drink or clubbing.

  Katie Price

  Drink, Wells, Models

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• Prosperity makes few friends.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Prosperity

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Thinking, Quality, Toasters

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

  Brad Pitt

  Close Friends, My Family, Handful

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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  Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Confidence

  George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94

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• From the first time he'd met her, he'd sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people's art and ideas.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Ideas, Air

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