Friends Quotes - Page 30

• The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Joy, Mines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

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• I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  Fay Weldon

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Years, Phantoms, Saws

  Interview with Paul Fischer, www.moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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• You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

  Ruby Wax

  Jealous, Laughing, Great Friend

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• Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

  Ruby Wax

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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

  Mom, Wife, Realizing

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

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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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• 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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• Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Clever, Stronger

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• Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mistake, Errors, Quaint

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• You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, People, Sad Relationship

  "The Agenda". Book by Bob Woodward, June 6, 1994.

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• I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

  Kurt Cobain

  Friendship, Happiness, Today

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• Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Names, Volunteer

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

  Joan Jett

  Fake People, Nothing To Lose, Behind Your Back

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2013

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• When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, True Friend, Faces

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

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• Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Men, Geography And History

  Address to the Canadian Parliament, May 17, 1961.

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• One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Country, Health

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• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Family, Wife

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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• No friendship is an accident.

  O. Henry

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.21, Booklassic

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Relationship, 4th Of July

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

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• Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Campaigns, Tents

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971

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