Quotes on Many Friends

Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences._x000D_ _x000D_ There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend._x000D_ _x000D_ On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.

Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.