F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are highly aligned.”
“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”
Source: Gone Girl: A Novel
“Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.”
Source: Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them
“Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.”
“Friends share all things.”
“Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.”
“Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.”
Source: May Bird Among the Stars
“Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.”
“Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness, because they have sympathy with us in our best thoughts and holiest aspirations, because they have community of mind in the things of the soul.”
Source: Friendship
“Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.”
“Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.”
“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
“Friends should be preferred to kings.”
“Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.”
“Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.”
“Friends should have all things in common.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Friends show their true colors in times of need; and not in times of happiness.”
“Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently [in Mexico] than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"”
“Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.”
“Friends take care of each other, Alice.”
Source: Alice in the Land of Clovers
“Friends take care of each other, Alice.
- Claude (King of Spades)”
Source: Alice in the Land of Clovers
“Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.”
“Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.”
“Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.”
“Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.”
“Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.”
“Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.”
“Friends, the light has come to the earth. We now have no right any longer to be in any form of darkness, especially in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Friends??
The people which are hypocrites and the people which you rought and hard you deal with them,”
“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.”
“Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.”
“Friends transform each other's outlook to a completely new perspective. Let's yours be a positive one.”
“Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“Friends, we have to confront the reality that sometimes the problems in our lives do not come because “we're living in a broken world,” or “the enemy is attacking us.” Sometimes our problems are a direct result of us failing to exercise self-control. We are not living in obedience. Just as we, as loving parents, will not let our children compromise without consequences, neither will our loving heavenly Father. He is calling us back to a path that will bring peace.”
Source: Finding True Rest in a Busy Life
“Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Friends were just liabilities waiting to happen.”
Source: Bite Me
“Friends who don’t care about your feelings aren’t your real friends.”
Source: InstaGrateful: Finding Your Bliss in a Social Media World
“Friends who had anarchy in their souls were reckless only by calculation and separated from convention by their own desire.”
“Friends who hurt deeply but connected in the same way I had.”
Source: Suggested Reading
“Friends who kiss might be good.”
Source: Second Chance Ranch
“Friends who love us know that motherhood is about transitioning--and adjusting, constantly, to those changes. We must become masters of change because that is what life demands of us.”
Source: The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity
“Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.”
“Friends who mock your dreams are not qualified to keep dusting your door step with their footprints every time.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Friends who say "I love you" every tie you part ways are important. Those are the ones you need in your life.”
Source: The Risk
“Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party...”
“Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.”