Quotes About Foolish Friends

#1. The difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

James C. Collins

#2. He promised he'd never leave me. That we'd be friends forever."
"He was foolish to promise such things,

Jen Wylie

#3. As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

Erica Jong

#4. Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

John Lubbock

#6. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#7. If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

Betty Furness

#8. May I be filled with loving-kindness. May I be well. May I be peaceful and at ease. May I be happy.

Jack Kornfield

#9. I begin and end with her. It's as simple and as profound as that. Our worlds have entwined and wrapped around each other's completely. They've shaped into something new and fixed and whole. There is no longer her story or mine, but now and always, only ours.

Laurelin Paige

#10. You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.

Rusty Fischer

#11. Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.

Mark Driscoll

#12. A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

Richard Baxter

#13. You must ... know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#14. The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.

Leonard Read

#15. Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Voltaire

#16. Humans are interdependent by choice. You have a burden of guilt, and it's brave of you to want to carry it yourself. But it's foolish not to let others help you. Give some of it away to your parents and your friends. And when they need your help, you'll be strong enough to support them, too.

Sarina Bowen

#17. A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Baltasar Gracian

#18. Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

Alcuin

#19. We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

Richard Kadrey

#20. I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Charles Bukowski

#21. Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

Jean Cocteau

#22. The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

Bill Nighy

#23. Go home and say to yourself, 'I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#24. But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends.

Eddie Lenihan

#25. once, didn't ye? He weren't so sure about

Dorothy Cannell

#26. Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.

Gautama Buddha