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Friends Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
- EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
- BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
- Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple…
- FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens…
- The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
More Friends Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams