Quotes and Sayings 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.
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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