Quotes
Quotes about Friends
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die.]
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Opposition is true friendship.
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.
Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two? Comin'--goin'--every day-- Best friends first to go away-- Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold Than their weight in solid gold, Slips their grip while greetin' you,-- Say good-bye er howdy-do?
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations â entangling alliances with none.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My Friends the Senses.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
There are no true friends in politics.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
