Friends Quotes

The nearest friends can goWith anyone to death, comes so far shortThey might as well not try to go at all.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies... the mystic chords of memory... will swell the chorus of the Union... touched by the better angels of our nature.

I could not raise ten thousand dollars if it would save me from the fate of John Brown. Nor have my friends, so far as I know, yet reached the point of staking any money on my chances of success.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones.

Prevent ... our friends from demoralizing themselves, and our cause, by entertaining propositions for compromise of any sort, on 'slavery extention.' ... On that point hold firm, as with a chain of steel.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.

So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have rarely been so suddenly dashed, as in his fall.

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends, who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

Books were always my friends Last more than fifty years Books gave me dreams. Dreams resulted in missions. Books helped me confidently take up the missions. Books gave me courage at the time of failures. Good books were for me angels that touched my heart gently at the time. Hence I ask young friends to have books as friends. Books are your good friends.

Friends, there is one thing I have realized, there is no victory in causing suffering. Triumph is a peaceful kingdom.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.