Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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.
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.
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?
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
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.
The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.
Prosperity makes few friends.
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.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
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.
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.
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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.
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
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