Quotes by Friends Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. Francis Quarles friends self thinking The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has. Francois Truffaut friends numbers directors It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream. Fran Lebowitz friends kindness thinking Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day. Francois Fenelon friends real joy You can be anybody you want to be Fred Small friends life country Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him. Francois de La Rochefoucauld distrust friends deceived "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last. Franklin D. Roosevelt friends cute sweet And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up Fred Thompson friends democracy world In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. Fred Ward friends play lying What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer. Francois de La Rochefoucauld friends self men Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. Francois de La Rochefoucauld friends regret grief Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld friends judging self The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion. Francois de La Rochefoucauld friends religious people Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld friends self men Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. Fulton J. Sheen friends book ideas Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: Friedrich Schiller dear friends should It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse. Gary Busey friends love enemy When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you. Gayle King hater friends people the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain. Gene Stratton-Porter friends would-be people Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever. George Eliot friends yesterday forever «23456789101112»