Top 20 Friends And Flatterers Quotes
#1. When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch
#2. The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.
F.L. Lucas
#3. I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.
Chris Hadfield
#4. There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
Gavin DeGraw
#5. We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
Malcolm Gladwell
#6. There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
Bobby Bowden
#7. Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
Woody Allen
#8. As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
James L. Buckley
#9. The bands were everywhere, close and faraway, a blend of discordant noise. He passed close to one now, a half-dozen drummers pounding away, a sergeant leading them in a rhythm that was no rhythm at all, and behind, men with fifes, squealing out something that had no resemblance to a song.
Jeff Shaara
#10. People who plead with you for favours
May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
Your friends are only those
Who all the time cheerfully support
Your heart's aspiration-flames.
Sri Chinmoy
#11. To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking and drug use, if people can do it and not hurt themselves. But it got to the point where I was really hurting myself.
Moby
#12. A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
Damien Rice
#13. Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.
Isocrates
#14. He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.
Francis Atterbury
#15. There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.
David Guetta
#16. Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
#17. Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends.
Erasmus
#18. Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.
Steven Knight
#19. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Matthew Quick
