Famous quotes containing the word friend:
“A woman can only become a mans friend in three stages: first, shes an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized peoplethe worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarismit is mere fetish.... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.”
—George Borrow (18031881)