Friends Quotes - Page 29

• I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

  Dian Fossey

  Destiny, Parent, May

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• About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

  Ayn Rand

  Simple, Construction Workers, Views

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• Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

  Victor Hugo

  Enemy, Sometimes

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• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Ignorance, Envy

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• Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Friendship

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• You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Friendship, True Friend, Enemy

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• When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boys, Lamps, Toys

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.387

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• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  Leon Uris

  Friendship, Enemy, World

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

  Mark McCormack

  Funny, Friendship, Business

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• There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Two, Friend Valentine, Can Do

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• For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

  Willow Bay

  Impact, Speak Less, Maximum

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• I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Friendship, Balls

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• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Friendship, Force

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.87

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• Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Friendship, Suffering

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1596, Moody Publishers

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• In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

  Erica Jong

  Friendship, Bad Relationship, Talking

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• Elysium is as far as to
  The very nearest room,
  If in that room a friend await
  Felicity of doom.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Happiness, Elysium

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, First Avenue Editions

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• Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
  it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
  as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Believe, Names

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

  Herman Melville

  Friendship, Faithful, Acquaintance

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Sex, Boys

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.276, Herman Melville

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• The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

  Mason Cooley

  Friendship, New Friends, Found

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• For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Men, Harbors

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• Father,
  you died once,
  salted down at fifty-nine,
  packed down like a big snow angel,
  wasn't that enough?

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Angel, Snow

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• What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Self, Care

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• Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  George Eliot

  Yesterday, Forever, One Day

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