Quotes with friends

Quotes 401 till 420 of 546.

  • Benjamin Franklin The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ace Frehley The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Aaron Machado The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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  • Samuel Johnson The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean Cocteau The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • John Henry Newman The love of Our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Shirley Maclaine The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • W. H. Auden The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Capper The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • B. F. Skinner The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Carl Levin The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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