Friend Quotes
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The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.
Mo Ibrahim
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TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.
Willie Garson
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Who's your fat friend?
Beau Brummell
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Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Everybody's friend is nobody's.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.
Andrew Jackson Davis
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
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An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
Anthony Trollope
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Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?
Thomas Carlyle
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One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Steve Jobs
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I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
Carre Otis
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
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You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
Epictetus
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If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire.
Reed Morano
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
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I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
Ewan McGregor
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A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
David Gemmell
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
Donald Miller
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I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.
Emeril Lagasse
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
Jet Li
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I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
Nicholas A. Christakis
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My dream, even now, is to walk for weeks with some friend that I love, leisurely wandering from place to place, with no route arranged and no object in view, with liberty to go on all day or to linger all day, as we choose; but the question of luggage, unknown to the simple pilgrim, is one of the rocks on which my plans have been shipwrecked, and the other is the certain censure of relatives, who, not fond of walking themselves, and having no taste for noonday naps under hedges, would be sure to paralyse my plans before they had grown to maturity by the honest horror of their cry, "How very unpleasant if you were to meet any one you know!" The relative of five hundred years back would have said "How Holy!”
Elizabeth von Arnim