To Be Friends Quotes

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. — T.H. White

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors. — Sue Townsend

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends. — Luke Treadaway

Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I'd have to let the dog eat her.) — Richelle E. Goodrich

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you. — G.K. Chesterton

I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey — R.J. Dennis

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered. — Carmela Dutra

If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing. — Howard Warren Buffett

My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. — Paulo Coelho

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. — Groucho Marx

The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship. — Paul Hoffman

You can't be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with — Nicole Williams

His eyes blazed, meeting mine. "You can't be friends with the person you were meant to spend your life with," he said his eyes darkening. — Nicole Williams

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. — George Berkeley

Trust only the voices that make no sense, the ones inside of you, and that way you'll always be able to spot friends and avoid enemies. — Joseph D'Lacey

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They did not need to be close friends to work together. But they need to trust each other — Kirsten Beyer

When you're a teenager,everybody is waiting for you to be something or somebody else-your friends,your parents,your teachers.Sometimes you lose track. — John David Anderson

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. — Julian Baggini

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier. — Brad Pitt

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. — Jules Verne

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk? — Kate Douglas Wiggin

The smell made it really hard to be friends with you."
"Probably why we stuck together. No one else could handle my stink or your attitude. — Victoria Aveyard

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends. — Syd Barrett

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. — Zachary Quinto

The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends. — Nigel Warburton

Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself ... one's friends must fail. — Gore Vidal

That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. — James Marshall

The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves. — Julia Kristeva

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you? — Anthony Jeselnik

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time. — Zig Ziglar

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends. — Julia Cameron

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends. — Rebel Wilson

Don't be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply. — Israelmore Ayivor

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends. — Rick Perlstein

I don't like relationships, though. I mean, it is nice and all, but I prefer to be the friend. I don't know why. They're kind of exhausting. — Abraham M. Alghanem

Build mutual friendships. Just be ready to end them when your friends start trying to eat you. — Jesse Petersen

We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever. — Laurie Halse Anderson

This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with. — Sarah Orne Jewett

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else. — Robert Pattinson

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age. — Paullina Simons

We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true. — Mark Boyle

No, we can't be friends. You're my mom. You're what i talk to my friends about. — Ellen DeGeneres

whole. Introverts may be able to fit all their friends in a phone booth, but those relationships tend to be deep and rewarding. — Brian Walsh

Friends, the church is to be centered on the Lord Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

I secretly went to auditions, to open calls. I was ashamed. Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive. — Kathrine Narducci

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. — Elbert Hubbard

My friends need to be punished. — Lil' O

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately ,experience new things, love and be loved. — David Nicholls

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people. — Taylor Momsen

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. — Thomas J. Watson

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had. — Stanley Hauerwas

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them. — Virginia Wade

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows. — Julie Gregory

When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.' — Matthew Perry

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional. — Eva Herzigova

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! — George Orwell

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing — Lilian Whiting

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived. — Sammy Davis Jr.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. — Aesop

You and I, we can be the best of friends, but don't expect to find your fairy tale under my roof. You got me? — J.M. Darhower

Some friends are gossips and some are sloppy drunks. If you like them well enough, you ignore this trait and continue to be their friend. — Jennifer Close

You've always tried to pretend you don't need anyone, Tash, but you do. We all do. So just let me be there for you. -Sophie — Julia Llewellyn Smith

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up. — Shane Warne

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? — John Boyne

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend. — Aidan Gillen

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves. — Jean De La Bruyere

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. — Warren Buffett

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every turn. — Evelyn Smith

In order to have friends, you must first be one. — Elbert Hubbard

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it. — Mark Indelicato

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. — Anatole Broyard

Love your friends and be just to your enemies. — Robert Green Ingersoll

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? — Richard Russo

Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends — Charles R. Swindoll

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though. — Michel Ocelot

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are. — Myrtle Reed

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this — Don DeLillo

Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life. — Goswami Kriyananda

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends. — Bindi Irwin

If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone. — Dan B. Allender

My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. — Nick Hornby

Let's still be friends (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say). — Lauren Leto

My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign. — Joe Andrew

Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food. — Suzanne Collins

If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean. — Zoe Rosenberg

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. — Dan Quayle

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends. — Kay Panabaker

Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together.
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be — Frances O'Roark Dowell

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. — Ouida

When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely. — Sri Chinmoy