Quotes About Having Fewer Friends

#1. 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

#2. When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'

Dylan Moran

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

Joe Abercrombie

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

Whitney Houston

#5. In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

Tami Hoag

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

Colette

#7. 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

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

Alan Loy McGinnis

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Abraham Cowley

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. People jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. Nothing sways them from the habit - not illness, not the sacrifice of love and relationship, not the loss of all earthly goods, not the crushing of their dignity, not the fear of dying. The drive is that relentless.

Gabor Mate

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#18. That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Suzanne Curchod

#19. 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

#20. What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.

Kate Winslet

#21. I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

Eddie Marsan

#22. Afflictions clarify the soul.

Francis Quarles

#23. 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

#24. Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Christopher McQuarrie

#25. 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

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

Demetri Martin

#27. 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

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

Anthony Ryan

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

Lily Collins

#30. 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

#31. 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