Top 100 Quotes About For Friends
#1. I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert
#2. My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
Tom Lehrer
#3. Any human relationship either grows or withers. There's no leveling off, except stagnation or the hardening of the will into concrete. For friends, lovers, married people, a next step must be there and must be taken.
William Kinsolving
#4. Stay and get married, or travel the Ways." Loial grimaced ruefully. "Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.
Robert Jordan
#5. I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
Melvin Van Peebles
#6. The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#7. I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or someone's in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.
Sofia Milos
#8. Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca
Joe Abercrombie
#9. Love is for friends & pets ... and family ... only if they really love you as unconditionally as your friends and pets.
Pauley Perrette
#10. 80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.
Ogwo David Emenike
#11. He is a king, whatever you or he or anyone else says, and a king or queen must dispense justice without fear of enemies or favor for friends. Anyone who does that has to be hard. Mother
Robert Jordan
#13. For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
Naomie Harris
#14. Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
Timothy Keller
#15. When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
Matthew Pearl
#16. 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
#17. Isn't there a word for friends that mess around?"
"Yeah, it's called girlfriend and boyfriend.
Renee Carlino
#18. After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.
Ted Alexandro
#19. Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
Francoise Sagan
#20. He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching the BBC and cooking barbecues for friends. It's much harder to dismantle that world and to rebuild it somewhere else.
Azar Nafisi
#21. I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
Mos Def
#22. Thank you for friends around me. For their love and acceptance.
Jo Huddleston
#23. Both men felt uncomfortable. Each knew the other understood him. That kind of knowledge is agreeable for friends, and for enemies very disagreeable, especially when they can't either have it out or separate.
Ivan Turgenev
#24. I have enough memories to keep me company and no great need for friends. I simply feel, as I have often felt, that life has eluded me.
Lorna Bradbury
#25. Looking around ... she couldn't help thinking that life indeed was a gift, and she had much to be grateful for - friends, family, and health. What more could a girl want?
Vannetta Chapman
#26. Anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.
Holly Lynn Payne
#27. At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial ... like being thankful for my Louboutins.
Christie Brinkley
#28. That's what a shrink is for; friends and neighbors; their job is to fuck the mentally disturbed and make them pregnant with sanity.
Stephen King
#29. For friends ... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis Bacon
#30. I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part of that lifestyle unfortunately, especially in New York.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#31. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.
Francis Collins
#32. A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.
Jonathan Swift
#33. If you're looking for friends when you need them ... it's too late.
Mark Twain
#34. As a rule, never work for friends. Sooner or later they resent you because you know so much about them. Or else you'll no longer like them, because you do.)
Lucia Berlin
#35. Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.
Max Elliott Slade
#36. I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
Barbara Kingsolver
#37. Dear Heavenly Father, sometimes I feel like I'm not going to make it. Thank You for friends that come alongside me and cheer me on when I feel like I'm about to go under. Most of all, thank You for always being with me and cheering me on in the great race of life. I love You!
Sharon Jaynes
#38. Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#39. I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#40. Was this hope? Facing fear after fear, for oneself and for friends and for the galaxy, all out of some desperate need to accomplish the impossible?
Alexander Freed
#41. From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
John Fahey
#42. Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another.
pg 69 Tomas to Vlad
Heather Brewer
#43. Never rely on your friends for money, or on your money for friends.
Mardy Grothe
#44. We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.
Marco Tempest
#45. This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
Albert Einstein
#46. Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!
Jackie Hill
#47. Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.
Lewis Thomas
#48. There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
Dalton McGuinty
#50. You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.
Miranda July
#51. C'mon, friend. It's two on one. You sure don't look like you're up to those odds. (Stranger)
You can't be talking to me. I don't have prokas for friends. And I assure you I could gut you both before your stench had time to catch up to your fall. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. But the best part of the evening was that there were whole hours when we sat around the fire pit and didn't say a word. We were together as a group, but they knew I needed silence. That can be very hard for friends.
Robin Roberts
#54. Ixion's not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.
Marianne De Pierres
#55. I try to make a lot of time for friends and family because I think that's really important and for pleasurable experiences.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#56. You're weird,' she said. 'You don't have any friends.'
'I didn't come here for friends,' said Bod truthfully. "i came here to learn.'
Mo's nose twitched. "Do you know how weird that is?' she asked. "Nobody comes to school to learn. I mean, you come because you have to.
Neil Gaiman
#57. If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.
Zig Ziglar
#58. Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Tom Glazer
#59. The library serves as a gathering place for friends who
share the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everyday
life, doing it by losing themselves in the written word.
Kristen Ashley
#60. For friends that always pick you up when you fall
And catapult you when you want to fly.
S.L. Jennings
#61. I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
Steve Perry
#62. Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.
Etty Hillesum
#63. Baking is one of my many hobbies. I was originally introduced to baking as a child by my grandmother. I continued to bake for friends and family throughout the years for special occasions. I began to create themed treats after receiving continued requests from a lot of my friends.
Rosanna Pansino
#64. The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.
Mary McCarthy
#65. Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
Sallust
#66. What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
James Joyce
#67. Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Willa Cather
#68. Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#69. A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
Truman Capote
#70. I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
Maya Angelou
#71. If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar
#72. Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#73. If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog.
Dan Rather
#74. But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.
Alia Shawkat
#75. And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#76. Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
Kate Morton
#77. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
William Styron
#78. It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.
Richard Branson
#79. When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater.
Timothy Simons
#80. Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#81. For friends, I love to make bruschetta. I grill country bread with Frantoia olive oil and make toppings, like crab, roasted squash, mushrooms, whatever's seasonal.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#82. Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.
Lu Xun
#84. I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.
Bristol Palin
#85. When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion.
Maripol
#86. I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.
Kim Fields
#87. Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.
Al Swearengen
#88. Fraternities aren't cool at all, not in the real, rock-and-roll sense, the one I now knew. They have a reputation of housing douchebags that pay for friends and try to seem better than everyone else, and actually smart, cool people shouldn't want to be a part of anything like that.
A.D. Aliwat
#89. If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#90. Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.
Charley Reese
#91. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
#92. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....
Amelia Hutchins
#93. Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.
Steven Wright
#94. ****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is by INTO THE DIM doesn't have any of my friends/comments/info. Not to worry, GR is working on it!! In the meantime...CUPCAKES FOR ALL!!****
Janet B. Taylor
#95. I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
Thomas Jefferson
#96. You're using me for my hot friends?"
"Are you gay?"
"Nope."
"Then you're useless to me.
Jay McLean
#98. I think the Internet has made it easier for people to connect with things that they really like, as well as provide a more personal experience, of 'I found this!' and then you can pass it to friends.
Maria Bamford
#99. Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either.
Greg L. Alston
#100. I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.
Christopher Fowler
