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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

Quote by Victoria Abril

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

Quote by Francis Bacon about problems, man

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about criticism, good, good luck, bad luck, bad

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

Quote by Henry B. Adams about friendship, thinking, life

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about essential, thinking

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Quote by Joseph Addison about body, mind

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Quote by Joseph Addison about talking, thinking, nothing

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about faith, friendship, nothing

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Quote by Aeschylus about enemies, contentment

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Quote by Aeschylus about friendship, heart, end

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Quote by Aeschylus about friendship, envy, character, man

A few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Quote by Aeschylus about good luck, wealth, good

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Quote by Aesop about friendship, enemies, things, man

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about good, good luck, fame, wealth, success, power, life

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about treasure

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about good, good luck, books

“Stay” is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about word

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

Quote by Warren Beatty about wealth, things, rightness, man

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Quote by Michael Bolton about experience

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen,...

Quote by Prince Andrew about question, family, moment