I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?
- Edward Abbey
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.
- Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
- Mark Twain
Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker?
- Joe Abercrombie
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
- Joe Abercrombie
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing and enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
- Joe Abercrombie
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
- Aberjhani
Life is still as never was,
One Seems dead yet still is alive.
Man frets for things, things he can buy,
All's for sale but not life.
Life is there when a friend is there,
A friend like you worth more than life.
- Amit Abraham
But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
- J R R Tolkien
A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
- Franklin P Jones
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- John Adams
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- Joseph Addison
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
- George Ade
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
- Aeschylus
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
- Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S Truman
We die as often as we lose a friend.
- Publilius Syrus
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be."
"That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"...
"You've been paying close attention, haven't you?"
"I like to observe people/"
"Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.
- Veronica Roth
There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
- Mitch Albom
there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.
- Jodi Picoult
It takes two people to make a friendship work
- Jodi Picoult
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- Louisa May Alcott
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
- Louisa May Alcott
He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.
- Cassandra Clare
That demon woman you were lounging with on the divan," said Will. "Would you call her a friend, or more of a business associate?"
Benedict's dark eyes hardened. "Insolent puppy"
"Oh, I'd say she was a friend," said Tessa. "One doesn't usually let one's business associates lick one's face. Although I could be wrong. What do I know about these things? I'm only a silly woman.
- Cassandra Clare
OR am I the only warlock you know?"
"No... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.
- Cassandra Clare
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.
- Ernest Hemingway
A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
- Ted Allen
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
- Steven Wright
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.
- Steven Wright
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.
- Isabel Allende
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
- June Allyson
Ted has a friend that owns a club. They're looking for a piano player on Thursday nights. I was thinking about it..." Blake trailed off.
"I think that sounds wonderful," Livia said immediately. "You'll be terrific, and I'll be front and center, every Thursday night." She smiled again, wondering if he could feel it.
- Debra Anastasia
I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
- Gillian Anderson
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
- Maya Angelou
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
- Maya Angelou
No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
- Maya Angelou
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!
- Hermann Hesse
In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.
- Jennifer Aniston
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
- Thomas Jefferson
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
- Antisthenes
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
- Plato
Kiss me," she said urgently.
Sam's eyes flickered with mild surprise. "Right now?"
"Yes."
"What kind of kiss?"
"What do you mean, what kind of kiss? Just a regular kiss."
"A friendly kiss, or a romantic kiss? Are we supposed to be going out together, or"
"Oh, for heaven's sake," she exclaimed, and pulled his head down to hers.
- Lisa Kleypas
Dane touched my chin and lifted my face upward, and kissed me gently. Only then did I understand that Dane had always been a friend I had slept with, and how entirely different that was from having a lover who could be a friend.
- Lisa Kleypas
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
- Aristotle
a friend is a second self
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.
- Peter Asher
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.
- Marvin J Ashton
Someone has said, "A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am." Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.
- Marvin J Ashton
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you---and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
- Isaac Asimov
Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.
- Kate Atkinson
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
- Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
- Francis Bacon
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
- Marcus Aurelius
Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
- Steve Maraboli
Sitting with her on Sunday evening a wet Sunday evening the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told...
- Jane Austen
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.
- Jane Austen
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
- Jane Austen
Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?"
For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?"
But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.
- Julia Quinn
Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.
- Steve Aylett
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
- Richard Bach
Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- Erykah Badu
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You stream almost too violently, fountain of delight! And often you empty the cup again, by wanting to fill it!
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to yourself, however-how could I forgive that!"
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Sex: for free hearts, innocent and free, the garden happiness of the earth, an overflowing of thanks to the present from all the future.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
- Will Christopher Baer
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
- Nicholson Baker
There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
- Oscar Wilde
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Why did you hit him? (Grace)
Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian)
Nice. You haven't seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with truth. (Indian proverb)
It sounds good, doesn't it? If only people and life were that effing easy. Trust me, it takes more than a friendly biscuit to tame a hungry lion. And it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's war. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Damn, Atlantean, what did you do? (Julian)
I apparently made a new friend. (Acheron)
I made a friend like that once. The bastard almost gutted me. (Julian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie)
I don't know. I think those two guys you were with would qualify as primates, but then, that's an insult to the primate and I don't want Marvin to get pissed at me. He has higher sensibilities, you know? (Wren)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
(Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.)
Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. 'Member me? (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.
- Lynda Barry
A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
- Charles Baudelaire
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
- Charles M Schulz
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
- Jean Paul
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.
- Peter S Beagle
You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
- Jennifer Beals
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
- Melody Beattie
Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
- Warren Beatty
For instance, I had a friend I generally avoided. He rather bored me, and, besides, he was something of a moralist. But when he was on his deathbed, I was there - don't worry... And when, in addition, it's a suicide! Lord, what a delightful commotion!
- Albert Camus
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
- Antony Beevor
A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.
- Greg Behrendt
How do you know he's a friend? There might be a number of people looking for me."
The creases around her eyes deepened. "I figure he's a friend, 'cause every now and then he calls,'Answer me, you stubborn son-of-a-bitch.
- Hilari Bell
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
- L M Montgomery
Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.
- L M Montgomery
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
- L M Montgomery
How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
- L M Montgomery
My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?"
"Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that thinking of a friend and meeting him are connected. But does thinking draw him or his coming draw the thought?
- John Steinbeck
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything elsea friend with special knowledge.
- John Steinbeck
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
- John Steinbeck
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.
- John Steinbeck
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
- John Steinbeck
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
- John Steinbeck
I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.
- John Steinbeck
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
- Arnold Bennett
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
- Lloyd Bentsen
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
- Pierre Jean De Beranger
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
- Candice Bergen
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Edgar Bergen
Running a service-oriented business means you have to accept whoever comes through the door. No matter who comes in, unless they're really awful, you have to greet them with a friendly smile on your face.
- Haruki Murakami
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
- Haruki Murakami
The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.
- Wendell Berry
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need
- Ambrose Bierce
A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life.
- Keith Richards
There was something better in life than this rub-bish, if only he could get to itlovenobilitybig spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend..
- E M Forster
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.
- E M Forster
Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of "a friend," "a person I know," "a place I was at." When the books of life is opening, our readings are secret, and we are unwilling to give chapter and verse. Mr Pembroke, who was halfway through the volume, and had skipped or forgotten the earlier pages, could not understand Rickie's hesitation.
- E M Forster
There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness.
- E M Forster
A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..
- E M Forster
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
- Buffalo Bill
He just wasn't good at being a cross between a teddy bear and just a friend.
- Shayla Black
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- John Dryden
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
- Karen Blixen
Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.
- Karen Blixen
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
- Orlando Bloom
We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.
- Ron Bloom
He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.
- H G Bohn
I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
- Alicia Keys
A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
- Thomas More
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.
- Sylvia Boorstein
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship,
I'll perform it to the last article.
--Othello, Act III, Scene iii
- William Shakespeare
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
- William Shakespeare
Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst
- William Shakespeare
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- James Boswell
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- Ray Bradbury
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
- Ray Bradbury
What must it be like
to move through your days always
in step with a friend?
- James Howe
It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
- Elizabeth Bowen
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
- William Boyd
To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
- T C Boyle
For about four years, I've been telling people I hate sour cream. One time I sent back nachos because they had sour cream on them. I started saying this because a friend I admire hates sour cream. I told him I hated it too so we could have a funny thing in common.
- Megan Boyle
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
- Alan Bradley
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- Carl Sandburg
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed."
"He is hope."
The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.
- Brandon Sanderson
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
- Heather Brewer
Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.
from "Lizzie After the War" by www.nancybbrewer.com
- Nancy B Brewer
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
- Elise Broach
That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.
- Elise Broach
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
- Joseph Brodsky
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
- Barbara Bush
How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor. pg. 65
- Geraldine Brooks
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
- Dalai Lama
A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.
- Tonny K Brown
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
- Les Brown
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
- Pam Brown
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
- Zig Ziglar
She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
- Nicholas Sparks
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
- Jackson Browne
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
- Jackson Browne
OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For others' uses, will write now for mine,-
Will write my story for my better self,
As when you paint your portrait for a friend,
Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it
Long after he has ceased to love you, just
To hold together what he was and is.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
- Jean De La Fontaine
It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.
- Chili Davis
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
- Pearl S Buck
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw."
He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
Churchill's response
- George Bernard Shaw
Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.
- Jimmy Buffett
A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.
- Quentin R Bufogle
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
- Vincent Bugliosi
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Hmm..." Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride."
Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.
- Rick Riordan
your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.
- Rick Riordan
Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.
- Rick Riordan
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
- Emma Bunton
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.
- Stephen Chbosky
Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.
- Stephen Chbosky
When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn't a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
- Edward Abbey
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.
- Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
- Mark Twain
Friends? In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker?
- Joe Abercrombie
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
- Joe Abercrombie
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing and enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
- Joe Abercrombie
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
- Aberjhani
Life is still as never was,
One Seems dead yet still is alive.
Man frets for things, things he can buy,
All's for sale but not life.
Life is there when a friend is there,
A friend like you worth more than life.
- Amit Abraham
But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
- J R R Tolkien
A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
- Franklin P Jones
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- John Adams
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- Joseph Addison
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
- George Ade
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
- Aeschylus
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
- Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S Truman
We die as often as we lose a friend.
- Publilius Syrus
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be."
"That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"...
"You've been paying close attention, haven't you?"
"I like to observe people/"
"Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.
- Veronica Roth
There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
- Mitch Albom
there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.
- Jodi Picoult
It takes two people to make a friendship work
- Jodi Picoult
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
- Louisa May Alcott
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
- Louisa May Alcott
He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.
- Cassandra Clare
That demon woman you were lounging with on the divan," said Will. "Would you call her a friend, or more of a business associate?"
Benedict's dark eyes hardened. "Insolent puppy"
"Oh, I'd say she was a friend," said Tessa. "One doesn't usually let one's business associates lick one's face. Although I could be wrong. What do I know about these things? I'm only a silly woman.
- Cassandra Clare
OR am I the only warlock you know?"
"No... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.
- Cassandra Clare
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.
- Ernest Hemingway
A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
- Ted Allen
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
- Steven Wright
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.
- Steven Wright
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.
- Isabel Allende
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
- June Allyson
Ted has a friend that owns a club. They're looking for a piano player on Thursday nights. I was thinking about it..." Blake trailed off.
"I think that sounds wonderful," Livia said immediately. "You'll be terrific, and I'll be front and center, every Thursday night." She smiled again, wondering if he could feel it.
- Debra Anastasia
I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
- Gillian Anderson
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
- Maya Angelou
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
- Maya Angelou
No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
- Maya Angelou
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!
- Hermann Hesse
In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.
- Jennifer Aniston
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
- Thomas Jefferson
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
- Antisthenes
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
- Plato
Kiss me," she said urgently.
Sam's eyes flickered with mild surprise. "Right now?"
"Yes."
"What kind of kiss?"
"What do you mean, what kind of kiss? Just a regular kiss."
"A friendly kiss, or a romantic kiss? Are we supposed to be going out together, or"
"Oh, for heaven's sake," she exclaimed, and pulled his head down to hers.
- Lisa Kleypas
Dane touched my chin and lifted my face upward, and kissed me gently. Only then did I understand that Dane had always been a friend I had slept with, and how entirely different that was from having a lover who could be a friend.
- Lisa Kleypas
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
- Aristotle
a friend is a second self
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.
- Peter Asher
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.
- Marvin J Ashton
Someone has said, "A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am." Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.
- Marvin J Ashton
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you---and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
- Isaac Asimov
Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.
- Kate Atkinson
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
- Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
- Francis Bacon
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
- Marcus Aurelius
Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
- Steve Maraboli
Sitting with her on Sunday evening a wet Sunday evening the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told...
- Jane Austen
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.
- Jane Austen
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
- Jane Austen
Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?"
For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?"
But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.
- Julia Quinn
Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.
- Steve Aylett
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
- Richard Bach
Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- Erykah Badu
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You stream almost too violently, fountain of delight! And often you empty the cup again, by wanting to fill it!
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to yourself, however-how could I forgive that!"
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Sex: for free hearts, innocent and free, the garden happiness of the earth, an overflowing of thanks to the present from all the future.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
- Will Christopher Baer
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
- Nicholson Baker
There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
- Oscar Wilde
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Why did you hit him? (Grace)
Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian)
Nice. You haven't seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with truth. (Indian proverb)
It sounds good, doesn't it? If only people and life were that effing easy. Trust me, it takes more than a friendly biscuit to tame a hungry lion. And it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's war. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Damn, Atlantean, what did you do? (Julian)
I apparently made a new friend. (Acheron)
I made a friend like that once. The bastard almost gutted me. (Julian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie)
I don't know. I think those two guys you were with would qualify as primates, but then, that's an insult to the primate and I don't want Marvin to get pissed at me. He has higher sensibilities, you know? (Wren)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
(Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.)
Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. 'Member me? (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.
- Lynda Barry
A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
- Charles Baudelaire
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
- Charles M Schulz
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
- Jean Paul
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.
- Peter S Beagle
You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
- Jennifer Beals
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
- Melody Beattie
Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
- Warren Beatty
For instance, I had a friend I generally avoided. He rather bored me, and, besides, he was something of a moralist. But when he was on his deathbed, I was there - don't worry... And when, in addition, it's a suicide! Lord, what a delightful commotion!
- Albert Camus
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
- Antony Beevor
A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.
- Greg Behrendt
How do you know he's a friend? There might be a number of people looking for me."
The creases around her eyes deepened. "I figure he's a friend, 'cause every now and then he calls,'Answer me, you stubborn son-of-a-bitch.
- Hilari Bell
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
- L M Montgomery
Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.
- L M Montgomery
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
- L M Montgomery
How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
- L M Montgomery
My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?"
"Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that thinking of a friend and meeting him are connected. But does thinking draw him or his coming draw the thought?
- John Steinbeck
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything elsea friend with special knowledge.
- John Steinbeck
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
- John Steinbeck
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.
- John Steinbeck
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
- John Steinbeck
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
- John Steinbeck
I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.
- John Steinbeck
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
- Arnold Bennett
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
- Lloyd Bentsen
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
- Pierre Jean De Beranger
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
- Candice Bergen
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Edgar Bergen
Running a service-oriented business means you have to accept whoever comes through the door. No matter who comes in, unless they're really awful, you have to greet them with a friendly smile on your face.
- Haruki Murakami
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
- Haruki Murakami
The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.
- Wendell Berry
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need
- Ambrose Bierce
A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life.
- Keith Richards
There was something better in life than this rub-bish, if only he could get to itlovenobilitybig spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend..
- E M Forster
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.
- E M Forster
Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of "a friend," "a person I know," "a place I was at." When the books of life is opening, our readings are secret, and we are unwilling to give chapter and verse. Mr Pembroke, who was halfway through the volume, and had skipped or forgotten the earlier pages, could not understand Rickie's hesitation.
- E M Forster
There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness.
- E M Forster
A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..
- E M Forster
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
- Buffalo Bill
He just wasn't good at being a cross between a teddy bear and just a friend.
- Shayla Black
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- John Dryden
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
- Karen Blixen
Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.
- Karen Blixen
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
- Orlando Bloom
We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.
- Ron Bloom
He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.
- H G Bohn
I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
- Alicia Keys
A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
- Thomas More
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.
- Sylvia Boorstein
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship,
I'll perform it to the last article.
--Othello, Act III, Scene iii
- William Shakespeare
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
- William Shakespeare
Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst
- William Shakespeare
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- James Boswell
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- Ray Bradbury
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
- Ray Bradbury
What must it be like
to move through your days always
in step with a friend?
- James Howe
It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
- Elizabeth Bowen
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
- William Boyd
To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
- T C Boyle
For about four years, I've been telling people I hate sour cream. One time I sent back nachos because they had sour cream on them. I started saying this because a friend I admire hates sour cream. I told him I hated it too so we could have a funny thing in common.
- Megan Boyle
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
- Alan Bradley
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- Carl Sandburg
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed."
"He is hope."
The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.
- Brandon Sanderson
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
- Heather Brewer
Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.
from "Lizzie After the War" by www.nancybbrewer.com
- Nancy B Brewer
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
- Elise Broach
That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.
- Elise Broach
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
- Joseph Brodsky
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
- Barbara Bush
How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor. pg. 65
- Geraldine Brooks
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
- Dalai Lama
A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth.
- Tonny K Brown
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
- Les Brown
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
- Pam Brown
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
- Zig Ziglar
She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
- Nicholas Sparks
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
- Jackson Browne
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
- Jackson Browne
OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For others' uses, will write now for mine,-
Will write my story for my better self,
As when you paint your portrait for a friend,
Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it
Long after he has ceased to love you, just
To hold together what he was and is.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
- Jean De La Fontaine
It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.
- Chili Davis
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
- Pearl S Buck
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw."
He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
Churchill's response
- George Bernard Shaw
Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.
- Jimmy Buffett
A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.
- Quentin R Bufogle
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
- Vincent Bugliosi
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Hmm..." Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride."
Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.
- Rick Riordan
your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.
- Rick Riordan
Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.
- Rick Riordan
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
- Emma Bunton
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.
- Stephen Chbosky
Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.
- Stephen Chbosky
When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn't a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
- Stephen Chbosky
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