quotes about No Friends
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
-- Anne StevensonSource : ANNE STEVENSON (1977). “COIL OF SERPENTS”
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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.
-- Aravind Adiga -
I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
-- Brent Weeks -
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
-- Charles BronsonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
-- Chelsea HandlerSource : Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
-- Chelsea Handler -
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
-- Christina Rossetti -
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
-- David Nicholls -
You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.
-- David Oakes -
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I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
-- Dian Fossey -
Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.
-- Ed Koch -
Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.
-- Edna Buchanan -
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')
-- Ezra Pound -
There are no friends at cards or world politics
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.
-- Gregory Galloway -
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.
-- Harlan Ellison -
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No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.
-- Hugh BlackSource : Hugh Black (1986). “Friendship”, Harvest House Pub
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There's no friends like the old friends.
-- James JoyceSource : James Joyce (1967). “Dubliners”, p.14, Lulu.com
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What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
-- James MaslowSource : Twitter post from Oct 22, 2012
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I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
-- Jean Alesi -
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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The U.S. has no friends, only interests.
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Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
-- John Steinbeck -
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There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
-- Jules RenardSource : Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.67, Tin House Books
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I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
-- Keira Knightley -
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
-- Louis Aragon -
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
-- Macaulay Culkin -
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
-- Mr. T -
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.
-- Naomi Wolf -
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Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.
-- Neal Shusterman -
I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.
-- Neve Campbell -
I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.
-- Nick Valensi -
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
-- Oliver Wendell HolmesSource : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation
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Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
-- SullaSource : Epitaph he made for himself. "Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age". Book by Will Durant, 2001.
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I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel,
-- Terrell OwensSource : "Love Me, Hate Me, Just Don't Ignore Me". Interview with Nancy Hass, www.gq.com. January 19, 2012.
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A fav'rite has no friend!
-- Thomas GraySource : Thomas Gray, Thomas PARK (F.S.A.) (1808). “The poetical works of Thomas Gray, etc. With a separate titlepage bearing the imprint of John Sharpe, London, dated 1805”, p.12
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The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
-- Vanilla IceSource : Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.
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When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
-- Willard Scott -
Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.
-- William A. DembskiSource : "What Every Theologian Should Know about Creation, Evolution, and Design" by William A. Dembski, www.arn.org. 1996.
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The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.
-- Benjamin E. SasseSource : Source: www.sfgate.com
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.