Famous quotes containing the word friend:
“She has composed, so long, a self with which to welcome him,
Companion to his self for her, which she imagined,
Two in a deep-founded sheltering, friend and dear friend.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“He doesnt want you for friends, thats why he did it. You see, when guys have been in the line as long as we have, you find out its no good to make friends, cause when a friend gets itwell, its rough on you. The buddies that come with you youre stuck with, but you dont make no new ones. Its the dyin truth.”
—Gil Doud, U.S. screenwriter, and Jessie Hibbs. Johnson (Marshall Thompson)