Quotes on Few Friends

I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.