Friends Quotes - page 9

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. (Francis Bacon)
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, Yes but if we have such another victory, we are undone. View quote
Francis Bacon
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. View quote
John Steinbeck
Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.' View quote
William Butler Yeats
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. View quote
Virginia Woolf
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, 'Was she not chaste Was she not fair Was she not fruitful' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. 'Yet,' added he, 'none of you can tell where it pinches me.' (Plutarch)
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. View quote
Plutarch
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. View quote
James Cameron (director)
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. View quote
Epicurus
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. View quote
Peggy Noonan
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. View quote
William Wordsworth
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Have no friends not equal to yourself. View quote
Confucius
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself. View quote
Joseph Smith
Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love Obey thy heart Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse, Nothing refuse. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen librarya company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson