Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Celtic Proverb
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
M. C. Escher
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare
I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare
(said of God):If this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder you have so few!
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
A little drama wins more friends than boring.
Scott Westerfeld
Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.
Benjamin Franklin
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
Eskimo Proverb
Prosperity makes few friends.
Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
Lord Chesterfield
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish Proverb
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
German Proverb
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Edgar Watson Howe
I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.
Oscar Levant
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
Oscar Levant
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
It's a hard call to make a decision to put your friends in prison.
Joseph Darby
Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
Ralph B. Perry
The Hero Factor are my good friends... They are the hottest act in Tulsa.
Rockwell Ripperger
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
Abraham Cowley
We are friends off the court. But on the court it was different. He was wearing Penn State colors, and I was in OSU.
Aaron Lewis
We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do.
John C. Collins
Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
You really can't beat that. Having some good friends and going out to eat some good barbecue.
Andrew Ray
There are no friends in wartime.
Frank Burns
If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
Larisa Oleynik
We're talking to anyone that worked with him -- family, friends, anyone that can help us out.
Frank Pasquarello
Some kids do play a little too much. I have friends who stay home all day and play.
Brandon Leivn
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush
If your friends are telling you to listen to these songs because they heard it from someone else, that's exactly how things catch on.
Terry Pettijohn Jr
Women, like princes, find few real friends.
Lord Lyttelton
I think half of the Rose Bowl will be friends and family.
Sonny Shackelford
You don't make friends in the job.
Jim Sinclair
It's really sweet and she's really very excited about it. Her friends were all really excited about it. It really is a great group. They are all getting it.
Linda Martin
It's always fun to play against Hoover. We're friends with all those guys.
Jake Hanika
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
I have joint custody of Christian. We have always been friends. We just had to go through the proper process.
Sean Combs
Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent career.
Douglas Mcgrath
I thank family, friends and Dad's former colleagues in this past difficult year.
Kristin Dierking
That has never even crossed our minds or come up. From day one, I met his wife; I became friends with her.
Stacy Keibler
These animals may never find their homes again, but it is OK because they are going to the sanctuaries that Best Friends has in Utah.
Charlene Mccoy
Most of my friends are smokers and they frequent different bars now.
Matt Ivens
My friends don't know what it is, ... Some have tried it, but that's about it.
David Jacobson
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
Ambrose Bierce
Some of my friends are taking flyers to businesses, asking them to donate money or for collections.
Cassy Steber
It's a lot of fun to be at the Olympics with friends. Everything is such a cool new experience. I wouldn't have made it this far without everybody, especially (Resor).
Sarah Parsons
I'm not a friend. But when they graduate, we become friends ? sometimes great friends.
George Gwozdecky
When money is involved like this, you have to be really good friends.
David Wright
I have never won a bracket, however I fill one out every year. I always do the bracket contests with friends -- $5 buy-ins, and then there are always a few contests around work that you can get into. The ones at work have the higher buy-ins -- roughly $20.
Bryan Stein
She has a lot of friends. I am amazed how many people. Once they know her they feel attached to her.
Yawcheng Lo
My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.
Keith Moon
He had hundreds of friends. He was the most generous person you knew.
Brian Penn
That means a lot to us. Most of my friends back home, they don't have this. Everyone's been great.
Brandon Nash
We are all from different countries so if we aren't friends then who are we going to hang out with?
Jessica Simosa
We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.
Peter Schmitt
I'm not doing this to make friends, I'm criticizing the academics, I'm criticizing sport fishermen, I'm criticizing commercial fishermen.
Sean Van Sommeran
[Friends] said it was the up and coming thing. And it makes your life easy, so here we are.
Bill Tucker
All my friends, family and teammates where there. The place was packed.
Ben Broussard
I'd once again like to send my deepest sympathies to the friends and families.
George Turner
All my friends started jumping in the river and that's when I realised I'd won.
Robin Bell
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce
We had a couple of friends with us when the event began. As the night went on, we got excited and began to adopt more fans all around us.
Cyndi Sharp
That's awesome. It feels like practice. She's one of my best friends.
Suzanne Schwee
It's still a little hazy when I talk to my friends back home.
Owen Schmitt
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
They're our friends. We hung with them at Florida State in a tournament during the season. But now, they're coming into our place.
Brian Brooks
I would do anything to hang out with my friends and it got out of hand.
Raeanna Jordan
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer
They are our friends.
Boris Trajkovski
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
Sheila Ballantyne
He introduced me to Eric. Since then, we are best friends, and we're doing this together.
Ricardo Raschini
But I have lots of friends, because I'm a real people person.
Sarah Chang
This was really about our families and friends back home in Canada. We wanted to keep it close for them.
Jason Muzzatti
Our hearts go out to the friends and family of the Lewis family, ... They'll be dearly missed.
Morris Johnson
For it to be fun, you have to connect with your friends. So you badger them into signing up.
Michael Birch
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
Frank Dane
My father was a very social person, and between the two of them, they had a worldwide collection of friends.
Deborah Tibbitt
We are absolutely having a blast. For the time being, we're just sort of carrying the dream of our families and friends in Atlanta.
Kristian Bush
Man have to have friends even in hell.
Miguel de Cervantes
We hit it off right away, but we didn't become best friends until we started playing doubles together.
Sarah Batty
It will be great chance to see a lot of old friends. I have nothing but a warm feeling for Harding.
Randy Gipson
He lost many friends of his that he was very close with.
Robert Grossman
Then the family and friends wouldn't have been able to drive to the game. So, it's better this way.
Steve Rissler
We didn't have a half-million dollars (for inventory), but we have a lot of friends.
Kenny Conley
Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
I had some really good days and some really, really bad days. But thankfully I had my family and friends to help me through it.
Gina Miller
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
We were friends before, and I thought we'd be friends afterward. He's a great man.
Barry Cassidy
It's about friends and fun and about saving the kids.
Josh Homme
We've lost a lot of history, but we have gained a lot of friends we didn't realize we had.
Wardell Harris
No, we're just friends.
Lisa Snowdon
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Tse tung
I think of Chris as one of the best friends I've ever had.
David Mcallister
I never thought I'd have to bury one of my friends.
Brian Matthews
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
So they could add tax breaks for their friends in the lobbying community.
Robert Matsui
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
It wasn't easy. I'd see my friends wrestling on TV and think to myself, 'Wow, I could fit in right there so easily.
Steve Borden
We are the same age, and we are friends. Whatever the result, I hope to celebrate with him afterward.
Lee Seung Yeop
I like it here, because a lot of my deaf friends are here. I can sit and chat.
Daniel Mcclarney
We have a lot of followers. That's just how it is. I have family. I have friends. I have the Garcia Family. We are just one big family.
Jesus Rodriguez
It's about competition and having fun with friends.
David Edmunds
When you donate, you are doing it anonymously. You are helping friends and family, and sometimes someone you don't even know, but lives here in the community.
Kristie Waterfield
It was my idea to come to America. It was a tough decision. I had to give up my friends and family, but it was what I felt I had to do to get better at basketball.
Camille Moute
I'm losing one of my best friends because of this. He's dying and it's all because he went into the water.
Stephany Sofos
It feels good to stay home a couple more years, close to friends and family.
Ricardo Lewis
She was loving it. All her friends were looking at it trying to see the stone.
Pete Gugni
I called, like, a lot of people, ... I called my parents and all my friends. Then I had to call them all back.
Adam Fisher
It turns out it wasn't about the kids at all. It's about political contributions and his lobbyist friends.
Terry Barnich
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
William Somerset Maugham
We didn't have a cafeteria back then. But my friends and I had a special place where we would eat the lunches we brought in pails.
Vera Miles
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor
One of my friend's customers was celebrating his birthday, and Tim went over there to sing happy birthday to him.
Mickey Ciriello
At first I was shy. Now, I call her friends all the time.
Mallory Comeaux
More patronage positions to put their friends in.
Charles Wells
(Clark) does not have friends in Iraq, ... He's trying to be an international hero. But he will fall down doing so.
Ridha Jawad
They think of Abbie as their best friend. I think they have really bonded with her and they just think of her as one of their friends who stops by each week.
Shelly Ferger
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara
Welcome, friends. My house is your house.
Antonio Villaraigosa
Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.
Clive Cussler
All the people were nice. They all acted like family and friends.
James Bush
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Robert Collyer
The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.
Drew Carey
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.
Danish Proverb
There was always something special about this class, ... We were always a close-knit group. A lot of us are lifelong friends.
Alan Smith
One of my friends was in the fashion show, so I came to support her, but I would have considered coming even if she weren't in the show.
Chris Pope
With all my family and friends here, yes, it was the biggest hit I've ever gotten.
Charles Greene
Everyone is just telling me not to worry about it. A lot of my friends don't worry about it.
Gary Cismesia
I like doing the discussion with everybody and all my friends and their moms.
Rachel Parks
The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.
Jane Jackson
We always write home to let our family and friends know what we're doing.
Cory Simons
It's a big ballooning family of friends.
Betty Brown
We definitely play well together. We're good friends off the court, too.
Andrea Mortimer
It's humbling. We never knew we had that many friends that cared about this.
Augie Gonzalez
This comes as a tremendous shock, ... Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends.
Deborah Long
I felt I had let down my family, my friends, everyone who was rooting for me at that time. It's in my best interest to go out there and try and redeem that.
Pavle Jovanovic
We are all good friends with her and she is good friends with everybody and we will all support her through this it will be tough for her.
Alex Olson
I used to go back there with my poker-playing friends and eat really good food.
Ronnie Vannucci
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard M. Baruch
There is no relief in my mind because I still have close friends that I still have not talked to that I'm afraid that are dead.
Michael Cole
You can definitely tell the growth of the band and how we've become tighter as musicians and friends.
Cam Grenstiner
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.
African American Proverb
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Two of my friends who are pros on the tour put me on the pro doubles association calendar and asked if I wanted to have a tournament, so I said yes.
Jim Brinkerhoff
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Seeing three of our four friends was very distressing. We are really asking the kidnappers to consider what they are doing and what this is doing to the [hostages'] families.
Allan Slater
Unfortunately we have friends who are friends with both of us so it's unfortunate for them to have to go to one wedding and not the other.
Bronwyn Thompson
I consider him one of the best coaches in the nation. Through competitions we also have become good friends.
James Wagoner
You're talking about two friends from the old neighborhood.
Michael Becker
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.
Sean Covey
Both kids were gone, and we decided this was something we could do together. We got some of our friends to do it with us.
Beth Johnson
First of all, all of us on the offensive line are best of friends and were all pretty happy with how weve been doing.
John Herrera
We have roots here,Homer. We have friends and library cards … Bart's lawyer is here.
Marge Simpson
I usually listen to what my friends try and then try it myself but nothing has stuck.
Christina Johnson
This is a good rivalry, and we try our best to beat each other on the field, but when it's all said and done, we're still friends.
Larry Dolan
It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
They both showed up with family and friends and voluntarily surrendered.
John Dugan
Not true. They were best friends.
Cynthia Lennon
This party is not just for me, it's for my friends.
Mary Hayes
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