Our Friends Quotes

391 quotes by 308 authors

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. — Ambrose Bierce
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will… — George W. Bush
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil… — W. E. B. Du Bois
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. — P.D. James
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis
Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends… — Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our… — Barack Obama
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. — Thucydides
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends. — Knute Rockne
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding… — George Bernard Shaw
Compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good… — Dalai Lama
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of… — Henry Fielding
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. — Jacques Delille

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