"If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good."
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"I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors."
"The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter."
"There's no friends like the old friends."
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
"People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?"
"Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money."
"He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends."
"You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity."
"I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate."
"What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share."
"Failure has no friends."
"Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults."
"Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity."
"Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')"
"Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
"I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race."
"There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five."
"If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss."
"Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . ."