Quotes by Friends A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night. Anne Beatts friends winning night A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. Anne Rivers Siddons friends light real Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand. Anne Roiphe friends friendship hands Father, Anne Sexton friends angel father There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five. Anne Stevenson no-friends friends five I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. Anne Stevenson friends shy art Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. Aristotle friends good-friend fortune Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them. Aristotle friends littles people There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate. Arthur Schopenhauer friends humility men Friends made fast seldom remain fast. Austin O'Malley friends made The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . . Ayn Rand friends happy happiness About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter." Ayn Rand construction-workers friends simple The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. B. R. Ambedkar friends marriage relationship There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. Baltasar Gracian friends self ideas Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. Baltasar Gracian friends pleasure teacher Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances. Baltasar Gracian friends circumstances self To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama leather-jackets friends rocks We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. Barack Obama friends gay blue I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems. Barbara Park friends problem believe A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. Benjamin Disraeli friends clever men «1234567891011»