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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• 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 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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• The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

  Humphry Davy

  Friends, Life Is, Ideal Life

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

  Dorothy Parker

  Home, House, Needs

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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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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  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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• I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

  Veronica Webb

  Average, Circles, People

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

  Antonio Porchia

  Suicide, Truth

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

  James Lee Burke

  People, Causes, Has Beens

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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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 do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

  Rick Bass

  Dog, Family And Friends, Inability

  Rick Bass (2001). “Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Sentiments, Ifs, Entirety

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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 grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.

  Tim Gunn

  School, Tired, Years

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin,, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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• A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

  Randolph Bourne

  Friendship, Men, Sides

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.111, Univ of California Press

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