Bosom Friends Quotes:

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Counselor, My Guardian Angel

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.51, Xist Publishing

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Soul, Intimate Friends, Kindred

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

topic: Best Friend, Together, Growing, Bosom Friends

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

- John Keats

source: John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

topic: Friendship, Summer, Running, Gourds, October And Fall

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Perseverance, Wish, Success In Life, Bosom Friends

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship, Making Friends, Bff

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

- Owen Feltham

topic: Nurse, Promise, May, Bosom Friends

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Omar Khayyam

source: Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

- Omar Khayyam

source: Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

topic: Kindness, Heart, Deeds, Bosom Friends, Harshness

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

- Catherynne M. Valente

source: Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.351, Macmillan

topic: Niece, Grandfather, Way, Bosom Friends

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

- George Horace Lorimer

source: George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.21, Lulu.com

topic: Office, Enemy, Should, Bosom Friends

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

topic: Country, Book, Reading, Libraries And Librarians, Wittiest

Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?

- Osamu Dazai

topic: Two, May, Realizing, Bosom Friends