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  • Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  • I get by with a little help from my friends.

    "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.
  • Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing I have Ted, will have children but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him.

    Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.373, Anchor
  • Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

    Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
  • The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

    Friends   Eye   Fate  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.566, Jazzybee Verlag
  • At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

    Hurt   Want   Few Friends  
  • Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

    Girl   Home   Exercise  
  • All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

    Home   House   Needs  
    Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
  • He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

    "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.
  • But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

    Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers
  • When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

  • I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

    Life   Honesty   Kindness  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.5, Xist Publishing
  • I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

    Country   Wine   America  
    Benjamin Franklin (1815). “The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition”, p.199
  • There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.

    School   House   Funeral  
    Source: keranews.org
  • I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

    Distance   Land   Comfort  
    Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.174, BookBaby
  • I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

    Years   Shy   Few Friends  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We'd ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

    Pregnancy   Parent   Want  
  • I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

    Andy Stanley, Bill Willits (2009). “Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture”, p.32, Multnomah
  • My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you’ve said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi)

    Pain   Son   Wrath  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan
  • We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

    May   Few Friends   Made  
  • The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?

    Party   Fighting   Clubs  
    Tami Hoag (2013). “The 9th Girl”, p.35, Penguin
  • Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

    Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

    George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94
  • For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book gets out there and more people are reading and responding to it. It really makes the world of the books feel real.

    Real   Book   Reading  
    Exclusive Books Interview, blog.exclus1ves.co.za.
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

    George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94
  • Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

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