Friends Quotes
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Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
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My friends: let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary.
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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He's living permanently in Bahrain. He has friends there who have been very loyal and helpful to him in a difficult period of his life. He's looking much better. He's with his children, and he's moving on in life.
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I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
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What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
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To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
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The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.
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I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.
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Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.
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When Katrina hit, my family lost everything - their homes, jobs, friends - and then it was a ripple effect, as so many others attached to them were affected. I had to come up with $12,000 per month to take care of everyone.
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I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school for dinner, I'd put on shows; I'd write plays and charge the parents £1.50 for a ticket for sweetie money.
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The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
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"Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove a alleybi. I've been a turnin' the bis'ness over in my mind, and he may make his-self easy, Sammy. I've got some friends as'll do either for him, but my adwice 'ud be this here-never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi. Nothing like a alleybi, Sammy, nothing."
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One of life’s joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
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Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
