Browsing Topic Best Few Friends Quotes

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you’ll always be alright.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

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.

I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I’m not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don’t understand why they haven’t thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don’t participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I’ve known forever. They’re all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don’t go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We’d ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

For such a long time, when you’re a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it’s really amazing when your book gets out there and more people are reading and responding to it. It really makes the world of the books feel real.

From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people’s art and ideas.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct…. girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing…. to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct – girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

And I’d like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don’t want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I’m just one of the people … just me.

I don’t want our relationship to end like this. You’re one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

There wasn’t a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.

How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didnt like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

It wasn’t that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren’t shared by anyone. Girls didn’t like me, and I had few friends.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I’m referring to those people who I’ve known since the 1960s.

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. Ihave a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like,’Oh my goodness gracious — that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing whichis cool.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.