Former Friends Quotes:

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

- Paul Theroux

source: "I don't think there's genius in my writing". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

topic: Writing, Former, Former Friends

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

- Nancy Reagan

source: "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

topic: Children, Eye, Color, Life Is Precious, Eye Opening

I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

- Bob Hoover

topic: Airplane, Cutting, Opportunity, Former Friends, So Lucky

Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

topic: Fall, Pride, Joy, Poseidon, Former Friends

Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That’s the way it is for everyone.

- Mira Grant

topic: Trying, Way, Facts, Former Friends

We linked hands—my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I—and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.

- Kiersten White

topic: Ex Boyfriend, Doors, Hands, Former Friends

I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago.... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate. They conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter at a time of great stress in my marital life.... I was set up as part of a scheme to co-opt me and obtain some advantage for themselves over me in connection with their hope for position in the ministry.

- Jim Bakker

topic: Stress, Years, Scary, Treacherous, Former Friends

Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

- Isocrates

source: "Complete Works of Isocrates".

topic: Friendship, Men, Giving, Former Friends

...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.

- Kevin Hearne

topic: Blood, Pool, Consciousness, Former Friends, Benedick