Quotes About Fewer Friends

#1. There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

Abraham Cowley

#2. They always blamed my reading, you know, for my having fewer friends than my brother and for my weak eyes, never thinking that because I had weak eyes and because I was shy, having a book at the ready rescued me.

Matthew Pearl

#3. We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#4. To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

Demetri Martin

#5. The mathematics of networks means that most people will have fewer friends than average, while a small number of people will have far more than average.

William Davies

#6. A miser is merely a pauper with fewer friends.

Anthony Ryan

#7. After a stressful event, we often crave comfort food. Our body is calling for more glucose and simple carbohydrates and fat... And in modern life, people tend to have fewer friends and less support, because there's no tribe. Being alone is not good for the brain.

John J. Ratey

#8. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. Countess Bezukhova quite deserved her reputation of being a fascinating woman. She could say what she did not think - especially what was flattering - quite simply and naturally.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#11. Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Robert Frost

#12. Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

Stephen Hawking

#13. When you move toward that which is most fulfilling and life-enhancing, healing follows regardless of what your health is like in that moment.

Christiane Northrup

#14. You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

Roger Corman

#15. If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.

William J. Clinton

#16. On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

Ben Affleck

#17. The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I only have the time and energy for so many people, which has cut down my friend group to a handful, but I'm so much happier with fewer good people, who really do know me.

Gillian Zinser

#18. I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

Eric Bana

#19. There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Marcus Valerius Martial

#20. A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Lily Collins

#21. If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

William J. Clinton

#22. As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

Sloane Crosley

#23. I have more CDs than 99 percent of America, but fewer CDs than 40 percent of my friends; if an acquaintance has more CDs than me, I feel intimidated and emasculated. I think any my CDs a lot. I find it oddly reassuring to look at them when I'm intoxicated.

Chuck Klosterman

#24. I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Arthur Miller

#25. LUKE Friends, rebels, starfighters, lend me your ears. Wish not we had a single fighter more, If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To make our planets proud. But should we win, We fewer rebels share the greater fame. We all have sacrific'd unto this cause.

Ian Doescher

#26. America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

John Olver

#27. Studies find that as people grow older they interact with fewer people and concentrate more on spending time with family and established friends. They focus on being rather than doing and on the present more than the future. Understanding

Atul Gawande

#28. If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#29. Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends - there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

Jacqueline Susann

#30. For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite in those holes, and detonate that dynamite, and seal that leak. Seal it permanently.

Phil Gingrey

#31. Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

Catherine Hardwicke

#32. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Colette

#33. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Whitney Houston

#34. Just smart enough to be dangerous, it turned out, wasn't really very smart at all.

Rachel Vincent

#35. The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

Henry Hazlitt